Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan

[Zeedox]

Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan

Telling children they will go to hell for not joining religious activities will be regarded as abuse. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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According to unnamed sources cited by Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry is preparing its first draft of guidelines to help local governments deal with issues of child abuse that have emerged in connection with religious groups such as the Unification Church, officially known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

The controversial Unification Church came to attention in 2022 after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot by a man with longstanding grudges against the religious group.

 

[Gomez Adams]

About damn time somebody took a stand against these fucking cults.