Deprogramming Unification Church members in Japan: how secular lawyers cooperated with Protestant pastors turned deprogrammers: bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

Why did Xi Jinping meet the fake Panchen Lama, something he had not done for ten years? bitterwinter.org/why-did-xi-jin…

Japan: the Unification Church, lawyers, pastors, and deprogramming, by Patricia Duval. Unveiling a manual for deprogrammers published in 1990. bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

Marco Respinti reviews the portfolio book “Vampiry” by Giacomo Porcelli and me, published by Tindaro Alessandro Guadagnini bitterwinter.org/vampires-a-new…

Anhui, China, even a Three Self church is harassed for resisting the installation of surveillance cameras bitterwinter.org/anhui-three-se…

Japan, how anti-cult lawyers admitted in court that they regularly referred families of Unification Church believers to deprogrammers bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

A videogame with a humorous touch depicts a war between the Chinese army and Uyghur and other “separatists.” Not known for their sense of humor, Chinese authorities in Hong Kong put those who play the game in jail. bitterwinter.org/reversed-front…

Japan, secret letters prove that anti-cult lawyers persuaded parents who had never complained about their adult children’s involvement in the Unification Church to hire deprogrammers bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

I participated in a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Unification Church case in Japan. Watch the video at vimeo.com/1093816252 (click on the link, not on the image)

Critical minerals: we buy them from China but do we know they are extracted and worked through Uyghur slave labor? bitterwinter.org/dozens-of-west…

Japan, Unification Church and deprogramming: the liability of the Japanese state bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

An executive summary of Patricia Duval's articles on deprogramming, the anti-cult lawyers, and the Unification Church in Japan bitterwinter.org/japan-lawyers-…

June 15, 1988, was the day of the great Urumqi Uyghur Student Demonstration. One who was there tells the story in Bitter Winter bitterwinter.org/the-day-that-i…

China, a new campaign against Bodhi Gong bitterwinter.org/chinese-commun…

“Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin”: why the US Supreme Court's decision benefits religious liberty for all bitterwinter.org/catholic-chari…

There are more and more graphic novels about religion. I reviewed "Agatha: Story of a Saint" by Fabia Mustica, a new take on the iconography of Catania's martyr bitterwinter.org/saint-agatha-f…

The powerful testimony of a Unification Church medical doctor who survived deprogramming in Japan, as presented at the United Nations in Geneva bitterwinter.org/the-unificatio…

China, the first group of defendants in the fabricated fraud case against the Golden Lampstand Church received heavy jail penalties bitterwinter.org/heavy-jail-pen…

My paper at the Krushevo, North Macedonia, conference today on the repression of some Qigong groups in China and Taiwan bitterwinter.org/who-is-afraid-…

China publishes a mammoth report on regulating the Internet. In essence: more surveillance. bitterwinter.org/china-a-mammot…