Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
Massimo Introvigne · 28 September 2026
Massimo Introvigne examines how major outlets answered requests to correct their Konstantin Rudnev coverage: some removed or edited their articles, others stayed silent.
Parliamentary and executive inquiries into religious movements and minority faiths.
Organisations and campaigns that oppose new or minority religious movements.
How news coverage and public discourse shape perceptions of spiritual minorities.
Individual legal cases and prosecutions involving members of minority faiths.
Legal frameworks, rights instruments, and court decisions on freedom of religion or belief.
Articles and interviews preserved from the Centre d'information et de conseil des nouvelles spiritualités (CICNS).
At the UN Human Rights Council, CAP-LC warned that the OneTaste convictions of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, resting on psychological influence alone, stretch trafficking law into a threat to spiritual communities.
25 September 2026
Argentine journalist Alejandro Agostinelli revisits his own 1991 anti-cult article and the Valentina de Andrade affair to show how the press manufactures a moral panic, and how the Konstantin Rudnev case repeats the pattern.
19 September 2026
Rosita Šorytė argues the Victorian Parliament's cult inquiry imported anti-cult vocabulary and leaned on uncorroborated apostate testimony, making it one node in a transnational campaign against Shincheonji.
24 July 2026
A guide to the roughly fifty-six interviews published on the CICNS YouTube channel between 2006 and 2014: scholars, journalists, practitioners and CICNS's own reports, grouped by voice.
17 July 2026
A guide to the four-part 2013 CICNS interview with sociologist Raphaël Liogier: the struggle inside the French State, why dissent on the cult question costs, why television forbids nuance, and his individuo-globalism thesis.
17 July 2026
Massimo Introvigne reviews Be Scofield’s “The Savior Complex,” which brands Jesus a “cult leader,” and argues that anti-cult models of coercive control and trafficking ultimately target mainline Christianity, not only new religious movements.
16 July 2026
Massimo Introvigne traces three pathways (expanded coercive-control laws, the judicialization of “spiritual abuse,” and reinterpreted trafficking statutes) through which discredited brainwashing theories are re-entering courts and legislation worldwide.
6 July 2026
What a religions scholar, a legal scholar, and a Christian legal advocate say about Victoria's inquiry into "cults and organised fringe groups": its origins, the definitional problem, and the religious-liberty stakes.
4 July 2026
Freedom for Faith’s Mike Southon warns Victoria’s inquiry into “cults and organised fringe groups” cannot define a cult without sweeping in mainstream churches, and urges lawmakers to prosecute illegal acts, not legislate belief.
6 January 2026