In a true story about the armed resistance in Lithuania against the Soviets, told by Canadian-Lithuanian novelist Antanas Šileika, a Catholic prayer book was found in 1945 floating in the river near the town of Merkinė. Anti-Communist partisans learned that it had been thrown in the water by three of their colleagues who had been […]
Author Archives: Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
