「質問権」行使、基準案提示　法令違反繰り返しなど―文化庁の専門家会議

　世界平和統一家庭連合（旧統一教会）を巡り、宗教法人法に基づく「質問権」の行使に向けた基準を検討する文化庁の専門家会議の第２回会合が８日開かれた。宗教法人に所属する者が法令違反を繰り返した場合などを行使対象とした基準案を同庁が提示した。
　会議でまとまった基準に沿って、同庁が旧統一教会について検討。会議と同じ委員で構成される宗教法人審議会に質問内容を諮問し、年内に報告徴収と質問権を行使する方針だ。（2022/11/08-10:27）

Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency on Tuesday presented to an expert panel a draft of rules on exercising the right to ask questions in a proposed investigation into the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church.
   The draft criteria say that the government can exercise the questioning right for a religious group under the religious corporation law when people linked to the group commit law violations repeatedly or when grave damage is inflicted, on the grounds of such objective evidence as verdicts in civil suits and other public judgments, according to informed sources.
   The agency will consider how to deal with the Unification Church, officially called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, based on the criteria to be approved by the expert panel.
   The government is expected to exercise the questioning right for the Unification Church within this year after presenting a list of questions to the Religious Juridical Persons Council, comprising the same members as the expert panel.
   The religious corporation law stipulates that the government can issue a dissolution order to religious organizations if they commit illegal acts found to clearly damage public welfare or acts that deviate significantly from their stated purposes. The government can exercise the questioning right for religious groups suspected of meeting these conditions.