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The Modern Crusade Against Spirituality

Twisted TV: How a Documentary Bent the Facts Out of Shape. 1. MISA in Romania

Written by Massimo Introvigne and Rosita Šorytė An Apple TV series against Gregorian Bivolaru and his movement even rehabilitates the notorious Securitate police of Ceausescu. Article 1 of 4. On February 16, 2026, one of us (Introvigne) received an email from Vince Calvi, Senior Manager at the company producing a documentary titled…
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Twisted Narratives. 4. The Larger Pattern: Media Narratives and the War Against Spiritual Communities

How Media Stories Are Built Around Spiritual Movements – Part 4 In the previous articles of this series (read part 1, part 2 and part 3), we examined how Twisted Yoga constructs its story. We saw that the documentary relies on a series of narrative techniques that influence how viewers interpret what they see. Some of these techniques…
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Twisted Narratives. 3. Strategic Omissions: How “Twisted Yoga” Shapes the Story by Leaving Things Out

How Media Stories Are Built Around Spiritual Movements – Part 3 In the previous article we looked at how Twisted Yoga builds its narrative through techniques such as emotional priming, negative reframing, and deviance amplification. But documentaries do not shape perception only through what they show. They also shape it through what…
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Canadian Woman Begged Doctors “Please Don’t Kill Me” Hours Before Being Euthanized

A Canadian woman who begged doctors not to kill her was euthanized against her will in January, according to reports. “An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live,” wrote U.S. senior investigations reporter Nic White. In Canada, patients can receive…
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The Ghost of Revisionism: Revisiting the 2000 Buenos Aires Yoga School Case. 1. A Momentous Decision

The 25th anniversary of the acquittal of the BAYS defendants deserves celebration, not falsification. On May 11, 2000, Judge Roberto Corvalán de la Colina issued a ruling that not only acquitted the Buenos Aires Yoga School (BAYS) of serious criminal charges but also stood as a rare moment of clarity in a fog of moral panic. Today, as a…
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BELGIUM – UK: The role of the media in the stigmatization of religious minorities

by Willy Fautré On August 1-3, 2025, the HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership (HJI) convened its 3rd International Conference in New York on the theme of “The Root Causes of Contemporary Threats to Freedom of Religion.” On that occasion, HRWF presented a paper titled “The role of the media in the…
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