Shincheonji Eternal Gospel: Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the 'eternal gospel' to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people ◈ Revelation 14:6 ◈
Does CBS know that the confinement and assaults done during the coercive conversion education is illegal and violates the human rights?
CBS side ☞ CBS broadcasted lies that violence, confinement, brainwashing, and coercion happen in Shincheonji.
Shincheonji side ☞ In Shincheonji the freedom of belief is guaranteed, personal rights are respected, and God and Jesus’s love is practiced; therefore, it is impossible to have violence, confinement, brainwashing, and coercion. Also, brainwashing is changing the conscious a person once had in a different direction or altering a person’s mind to follow a specific ideology and thought. Shincheonji teaches with the Bible and there is no brainwashing done. On the contrary, coercive conversion pastors distort the truth, lie to Shincheonji congregation members, neglect the congregation members’ rights, defame them, forcefully practice the conversion education with their own standard (this is brainwashing), have the families violate individual rights by confining and assaulting instead to evade the law, and so on.
On the 8th of April, the Coercive Conversion Education Victims Association and New Heaven and Earth (Shincheonji) held a press conference to denounce CBS false and distorted broadcasting at the Gwanghwamun Sejong Art Center in Seoul. Sixty-six media organizations, including newspapers, attended the conference and ninety-nine articles were published. All the reports cover CBS’s false and distorted broadcasting. CBS unilaterally aired things that are not true as if they are true to make money with coercive conversion education pastors without the confirmation of Shincheonji Church of Jesus (hereinafter Shincheonji) and the Coercive Conversion Education Victims Association. Because of this, this reputation of Shincheonji and the Association has been defamed. How can we call this CBS a religious broadcasting company? False and distorted reports for money, coercive conversion education for money, and putting the blame for all of their wrongs on Shincheonji .These actions are brutalities through which religious people have violated human rights.
CBS!!! How can trampling on others’ human rights in the name of religion not be considered a sin???
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Starting March 16th, 2015, the self-claimed “leading Christian Media Network” of Korea, CBS, aired a documentary called, “People who have Fallen into Shincheonji.” However, this program was illegally filmed using hidden cameras without any consent of those who were filmed, with about 2,000 hours worth of footages of human rights violation. The program consisted of a biased reporting that vindicates illegal and coercive conversion sessions, and it aired slandering words of a few who are hostile to Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), without any objective discussion.
This program was based only on increasing ratings, with a completely lost sense of journalistic ethics. On the other hand, the airing of this program proved itself to be motivated to introduce the so-called “cult counseling facility” to the public and raise sponsorship.
CBS had already been in a previous scandal for airing a certain pastor’s sermon in exchange of 8 million Korean Won in monthly payment, though the pastor was warned by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (GAPCK) in regards to the pastor’s heretical nature. Does money ultimately determine how one is heretical or not?
On top of this, the CCK is using CBS’s falsifying reporting as a shield to hide the CCK’s own lies, though CBS’s reporting confused the people of Korea with its lies. However, CBS’s false reporting has been purposely edited to slander Shincheonji in a biased way, and it publicly exposed the existence of coercive conversion sessions to the world that were only done privately. Such airing is a gross violation of human rights, going against the Korean constitution and regulations that guarantee the citizens’ religious freedom, and it is also against journalistic integrity. It is also absurd to publicly talk down on a specific denomination when the Republic of Korea does not have a national religion, just from the CCK’s arbitrary judgment to determine Shincheonji as heretical. Such an act of condoning human rights violation should be investigated by the relevant government agencies.
This is because the freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, Article 20 Clause 1.
Does CBS know that the confinement and assaults done during the coercive conversion education is illegal and violates the human rights?
