Ask Bitter Winter to stop supporting Eastern Lightning and other cults and apologize

The Issue

We found that Bitter Winter has published articles on the website in support of cults from Eastern Lightning, Unification Church, etc. As an organization with a strong cult color, Eastern Lightning has been defined as a cult heresy by Christian sects in many countries, but Bitter Winter and its editor-in-chief MASSIMO completely ignored the criticism of Eastern Lightning from all over the world. Express support for Eastern Lightning.


In an article supporting Unification Church, the author MASSIMO INTROVIGNE believes that the Japanese government and the Chinese government's criticism of these cults is unfair, but obviously some of the views in MASSIMO's article do not match the facts.The most obvious part is the belief that the family of the murderer who assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went bankrupt has nothing to do with the Unification Church, on the grounds that the murderer's family went bankrupt in 2002, but the assassination took place in 2022.

This is obviously to avoid the truth of the incident. After the murderer's family business went bankrupt, there was still a certain amount of savings in the family, and the construction company run by the murderer's mother continued to operate until 2009. According to the murderer himself: "I can't forgive (Unification Church) because my mother continued to donate to it even after bankruptcy."

The above information comes from the report of the well-known Japanese media The Asahi Shimbun, which is completely inconsistent with the information given by MASSIMO.

Therefore, in order to prevent more people from being misled by Eastern Lightning and Unification Church because of MASSIMO INTROVIGNE’s articles, we call on MASSIMO INTROVIGNE and Bitter Winter to immediately withdraw all articles supporting the above two cult organizations and stop any actions they continue to support the cults , and apologized to the public for its previous actions.

Also, in order to prevent more people from being affected by the Unification Church, we share a video revealing the partnership between Unification Church and Bitter Winter, hoping to make everyone aware of the sinister nature of these cults.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtjfqA0Ksk

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The Issue

We found that Bitter Winter has published articles on the website in support of cults from Eastern Lightning, Unification Church, etc. As an organization with a strong cult color, Eastern Lightning has been defined as a cult heresy by Christian sects in many countries, but Bitter Winter and its editor-in-chief MASSIMO completely ignored the criticism of Eastern Lightning from all over the world. Express support for Eastern Lightning.


In an article supporting Unification Church, the author MASSIMO INTROVIGNE believes that the Japanese government and the Chinese government's criticism of these cults is unfair, but obviously some of the views in MASSIMO's article do not match the facts.The most obvious part is the belief that the family of the murderer who assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went bankrupt has nothing to do with the Unification Church, on the grounds that the murderer's family went bankrupt in 2002, but the assassination took place in 2022.

This is obviously to avoid the truth of the incident. After the murderer's family business went bankrupt, there was still a certain amount of savings in the family, and the construction company run by the murderer's mother continued to operate until 2009. According to the murderer himself: "I can't forgive (Unification Church) because my mother continued to donate to it even after bankruptcy."

The above information comes from the report of the well-known Japanese media The Asahi Shimbun, which is completely inconsistent with the information given by MASSIMO.

Therefore, in order to prevent more people from being misled by Eastern Lightning and Unification Church because of MASSIMO INTROVIGNE’s articles, we call on MASSIMO INTROVIGNE and Bitter Winter to immediately withdraw all articles supporting the above two cult organizations and stop any actions they continue to support the cults , and apologized to the public for its previous actions.

Also, in order to prevent more people from being affected by the Unification Church, we share a video revealing the partnership between Unification Church and Bitter Winter, hoping to make everyone aware of the sinister nature of these cults.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtjfqA0Ksk

The Decision Makers

CIC
CIC
Cult Information Centre
CRI
CRI
Centre Roger Ikor
MILS
MILS
Mission interministérielle de lutte contre les sectes
FECRIS
FECRIS
Fédération Européenne des Centres de Recherche et d'Information sur le Sectarisme
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MIVILUDES
MIVILUDES

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