Droit à la vérité

Six chercheurs examinent les activités de la FECRIS, et concluent qu’elles sont bien dangereuses pour la liberté de croyance.

Par Luigi Berzano (Université de Turin, Italie), Boris Falikov (Université d’état russe pour les sciences humaines, Moscou, Russie), Willy Fautré (Droits humains sans frontières, Bruxelles, Belgique), Liudmyla Filipovich (Département d’études religieuses, Institut de philosophie de l’Académie nationale des sciences, Kiev, Ukraine), Massimo Introvigne (Centre d’études sur les nouvelles religions, Turin, Italie), Bernadette Rigal-Cellard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France)

by Massimo Introvigne — FECRIS, the European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sects, is an umbrella organization for anti-cult movements in Europe and beyond. It is significantly funded by the French government, and has been identified by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) as a main international threat to religious liberty. When FECRIS branches are sued, they often claim that these are futile litigations started by “cults” with the only purpose of harassing them, since anti-cult movements serve a public function, and their exposes of “cults” are protected by free speech laws.