Conspiracy, “spirituality”…: Always more sects and reports

The latest Miviludes report mentions more than 4,000 reports in 2021. Faced with one of the consequences of the health crisis, the government is planning a meeting on sectarian aberrations in 2023. Conspiratorial communities, health gurus, personal development, well-being, shamans, life coaches, psychocorporal therapists… New forms of sects, using a pompous and empty lexical field, … Read more

MAINTENANCE. Sects: “Reports reach records”, warns Sonia Backès

The “Miviludes” is the Interministerial mission of vigilance and fight against sectarian aberrations. Created in 2002, replacing the Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Sects (MILS), which dated from 1998, Miviludes was attached to the Ministry of the Interior in 2020. Sonia Backès, Secretary of State for Citizenshipfollows its work in this capacity. What does … Read more

Sects: health “subject of major concern” of excesses

Two years after the start of the health crisis, sectarian aberrations are the subject of a “significant increase” in referrals, according to the Interministerial Mission responsible for combating these phenomena (Miviludes), for which health remains “a subject of major concern”. Published: November 2, 2022 at 9:00 p.m. Reading time: 3 mins The Miviludes received 4,020 … Read more

Sects religious in Japan / “Tax

The Japanese have a particular relationship with spirituality, and this particularity seems to be a fertile ground for associations and religious sects. This is what emerges from an analysis by Pio d’Emilia for Il Messaggero, who writes, quoting the Jesuit Father Giuseppe Pittau: “in the Japanese there is a high sense of spirituality, but also … Read more

If religions and sects also do politics and business

What relationship do the Japanese have with religion? According to official statistics, a bit confused, superficial and… instrumental. Against a population of about 120 million people, 82 million claim to be Shinto (the indigenous animist religion), 50 million Buddhists, about a million Christians and 4 million followers of “other” religions. The numbers don’t add up. … Read more