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