Washington, DC, Oct. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“This is the first religious persecution in the post-war history,
and it could also greatly undermine Japanese constitutionalism”
– Haruhisa Nakagawa, President, Japan Christian Theological Institute
Center for Studies on New Religions’ Bitter Winter
Publishes an Analysis by a Leading Japanese Christian Theologian on the
Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church Issue
“Half-truths,” “false claims” and “misinformation” are being used to dissolve the religion,
says theologian Haruhisa Nakagawa, a longtime critic of the Unification Church
TORINO, Italy (September 29, 2023) Bitter Winter, a magazine of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), has been following the Japanese government’s unusual and intrusive investigation—and possibly liquidation—of a minority religion, which began after the July 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Today, Bitter Winter is publishing an analysis by a leading Japanese Christian theologian who, despite his opposition to the Japan Family Federation for World Peace and Unification/Unification Church, is alarmed by the government’s mistreatment of it. This two-part series, by Haruhisa Nakagawa, president of Japan Christian Theological Institute, will run September 29-30, 2023.
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