Japan enacts law to help victims of religious donations

Japan's parliament on Saturday enacted a law to ban organizations from maliciously soliciting donations following criticism over the fundraising practices of the Unification Church and public anger over decades of close ties between ruling party lawmakers and the religious group.Aiming to prevent the creation of new victims of controversial religious groups, the House of Councillors, or upper house, passed the bill with the support of the ruling bloc and most of the opposition parties on the final day of the 69-day extraordinary parliamentary session.The bill cleared the Diet five months af…READ FULL ARTICLE