freedom of conscience

On 16 March, the American House of Representatives adopted with 412 votes against 1 a resolution condemning persecutions undergone by Falun Gong practitioners, a Chinese movement of buddhist and taoist inspiration. The text demands from the government of Popular China « an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.”

***Lyons, April 28, 2000
Claude is a Protestant. The freedoms of his Evangelical Association are being more and more restricted due to the growing climate of fear of “cults” that is spreading in France today and affecting many religions groups.
I represent the CLEF Association [Lyons Evangelization and Training Circle], which is affiliated with the French Evangelical [...]

One more case of misuse of the parliamentary report on cults and discrimination in total impunity
Human Rights Without Frontiers urges France’s Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior to send a circular letter to the institutions under their authority forbidding the use of the parliamentary black list of so-called cults to deny the full [...]

***Georges Fenech snubbed***
Georges Fenech wanted to issue a new list of “sects” at any price, but being aware of the opposition it might spur, he modestly called it a “referential”. Matignon (Prime Minister’s Mansion) has just snubbed him by refusing its publication. It will only be available to “professionals” who request it. Nevertheless, let’s not [...]

For more than a decade, 1 million euros has been spent every year out of taxpayers’ money to support specific lobbies. This waste of money is still going on and escaped so far the official cost reductions induced by the economic crisis.
When inquiring further into this situation, we found out a story of a carefully [...]