解散請求へ、１２日に宗教審　旧統一教会巡り、文科省発表

　文部科学省は１１日、世界平和統一家庭連合（旧統一教会）の解散命令請求を巡り、有識者による宗教法人審議会（文科相の諮問機関）を１２日に開催すると発表した。政府関係者によると、委員の意見を踏まえて同日中に正式決定し、１３日にも東京地裁へ請求する方針。
　宗教法人法は第８１条で、解散命令の要件を「法令に違反して、著しく公共の福祉を害すると明らかに認められる行為」「宗教団体の目的を著しく逸脱した行為」と定めている。これに基づく解散命令は、地下鉄サリン事件を起こしたオウム真理教、霊視商法詐欺事件で幹部が有罪判決を受けた明覚寺の２例しかない。政府が民法の不法行為を根拠に調査し請求するのは初めてとなる。（2023/10/11-14:13）

Japan's culture ministry will hold an advisory panel meeting Thursday in one of the final steps toward seeking a dissolution order against the Unification Church religious group, the ministry said Wednesday.
   The government plans to hear opinions from experts in the Religious Juridical Persons Council before formally deciding within Thursday whether to seek the order, officials said. If it decides to go ahead, the government is set to ask Tokyo District Court for the order as early as Friday.
   Article 81 of the religious corporations law stipulates that a court can issue such an order if, "in violation of laws and regulations, the religious corporation commits an act which is clearly found to harm public welfare substantially" or if "the religious corporation commits an act which deviates substantially from the purpose of a religious organization."
   There have only ever been two cases in which dissolution orders were issued--against the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which was behind a sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system, and against the Myokakuji religious group, whose executives were found guilty of fraud.
   It will be the first time for the government to investigate a religious group and seek a dissolution order against it, based on unlawful acts under the Civil Code.