The One Who Got Away This year's focus is human rights and religious freedom. The WFWP has been working to help Toru Goto and his fight for religious freedom in Japan by creating awareness of his kidnapping and torture. In the video below, Goto gives his testimony of his 12 year experience in the confines of a deprograming institution in Japan.

The Segye Times of Korea has reported that American religious leaders, human rights activists and Japanese Unificationist victims of kidnapping and confinement held a press conference and protest in front of the Japanese consulate in New York, USA. They urged the ceasing of human rights violations against Japanese Unificationist victims, consisting of kidnapping and confinement, and the immediate release of abducted persons. Rev. Michael Jenkins, chairman of the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC), Rev. Luonne Rouse, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Huntington-Gold Spring Harbor, New York, Bishop Jesse Edwards of the Pentecostals of Philadelphia, Dan Fefferman, president of the International Coalition for Religious Freedom, and other religious leaders and human rights activists demanded that the Japanese government take an active stance in resolving the human rights violations of…