The church stated its members suffered attacks, assaults, and death threats as a result of negative media attention.” The report also mentions concerns about the new regulations.
The Department of State and the drama of religious liberty in Japan
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The assassination’s aftermath has emboldened fringe Japanese communists to try to smear and discredit Abe’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party over its links to the Unification Church, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who warned this week that Tokyo now finds itself in a “political fight about an ideology of communism, which wants to destroy its major competitor” to “get control of Japan.”
Religious freedom under threat; summit highlights actions by China, developments in Japan
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