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Several events presented the Tai Ji Men case in connection with one of the world’s largest freedom of religion events.

At one of the largest European gatherings of scholars of religion, academics and dizi discussed the situation in Taiwan.

Tai Ji Men was among the victims of the 1996 crackdown on those religious movements that were accused of not having supported the ruling party in the presidential elections, the last act of Taiwan’s post-authoritarian repression of independent spiritual groups. While...

Scholars and dizi presented papers on different angles of the 25-year-old case at Quebec City’s Université Laval

Taiwan’s government initiated the process of preparing reports on the rights protected by the two Covenants, and in 2013, an independent Review Committee with experts from nine different countries was invited to review these reports.

Could the harmony reigning among Tai Ji Men dizi be the reason bureaucrats persecute it? The answer may lie in a literary myth.

The Tai Ji Men case proves that Taiwan has not implemented yet the human rights covenants it introduced into its domestic law, a written statement says.

The modern study of disasters confirms that even in natural catastrophes the corrupted bureaucrats’ lack of conscience play a destructive role.

“Environment,” as Pope Francis explained in “Laudato Si’,” also includes social institutions, whose technocratic corruption may damage the whole “ecosystem.”