Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
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CICNS dossier of violent police and gendarmerie raids on spiritual minorities in France from 1989 to 2011 (Longo Maï, The Family, Beljanski, Tabitha's Place, the Mandarom and others), with CICNS's advice to victims.
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
Part 2 of Bernard Doherty's analysis: "cult" is used so loosely in Victoria's inquiry that most Australian churches and faith communities could be targeted, a threat to religious liberty far beyond the unpopular few.
15 November 2025