Conclusion on CBS False Report about Shincheonji

 

The Court's Ruling

on CBS False Report

about Shincheonji

 


The Republic of Korea guareentees the freedom of religion in its constitution, and naturally the citizens of  Republic of Korea have the right to choose the religion.
Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony (Shincheonji Church), which bases its life of faith on the Word from the Holy Bible, is growing rapidly as the number of the church members are reaching 170,000. It is revealed that the Shincheonji Church is not affiliated with the corrupted Christian Council of Korea (CCK), but rather centers the life of faith on the Word.
 
However, CBS works to degrade the image of the SCJ Church by falsely broadcasting the illegal acts of SCJ Church and represents the opposing view of the Christian Council of Korea. Although the Shincheonji Church has been attempting to understand their acts with love, but because of its, the Shincheonji Church would like to announce few incidents as the following.

The followings are examples of such incidents.
 
1. On November 20th, 2015, CBS published an article with the title "Shincheonji's attempted propagation activity in the name of filial fesitival in school abandoned" that Shincheonji attempted a propagation activity by renting the school cafeteria and hosting a festival against the community members.

▶ However, on the 29th, Seoul Southern District Court Civil File No. 15 (Lee Gwang Young, Chief Prosecuting Attorney) reached the verdict that corrected report must be published in 48 hours, which is three days from 9 AM, the day of conclusion of judgement in the law suit for correction and compensation by Shincheonji against CBS. Also, they concluded that 5,000,000 won compensation must be given.
 
2. Last year on November 20th, CBS reported that "Shincheonji visited the school, which they requested to lend, and the Dajeon City, Office of Education, to ask for cooperation in lending the facility, but the school and the Office of Education declined the request and stated that it is inappropriate to lend a public facility to a religious group, which faces social criticism."

▶ The court ordered CBS that "they must publish a corrected report and if this is not kept, they must pay million won each day until the due date." Also, they ordered CBS to pay five million won to Shincheonji as a fine, and must pay a 15% annually by the final date of completion after the 6th of September.

▶ The reason is as following: It is confirmed from the Daejeon City Office Of Education that Shincheonji church has been conducting volunteer service activity nationwide with the name of Shincheonji Voluntary Service Group since 2010. Yet, CBS has described the pure service activity as propagation without accurate ascertainment of the truth. Furthermore, it is found that Shincheonji church was inflicted with a damage of defamation, such as being misunderstood that it is rejected to use school facility due to reason that it is a religious group. Therefore, the court indicated that CBS has a duty to offer corrected report, under article 14 of the law regarding arbitration of media and aid of loss and others concerned.

※ Alerted by the dramatic growth of Shincheonji Church of Jesus Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (also known as ‘Shincheonji’ Church), Korean Christian churches are arbitrarily labeling Shincheonji as ‘heresy’ in order to stop their own congregation members from going to Shincheonji.

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