🌍 Religious Freedom Defense API

Public REST API providing educational resources proving that Afro-Caribbean religions are NOT criminal organizations - they are legitimate religious traditions persecuted by colonial and class-based discrimination.

🏆 Thesis

"RELIGIONS ARE NOT CRIMINALS - they are persecuted by those in power"

📿 Religions Covered

| Religion | Origin | Practitioners | Legal Status | |----------|--------|---------------|--------------| | Vodou | Haiti/West Africa | 60+ million | Official in Haiti (2003) | | Santería | Cuba/Yoruba | 800K+ initiates (Cuba) | US Protected (Lukumi 1993) | | Candomblé | Brazil | 2+ million | Protected in Brazil | | Palo Mayombe | Cuba/Congo | Hundreds of thousands | First Amendment protected | | Santa Muerte | Mexico | 10-12 million | Practiced freely | | Obeah | Caribbean | Hundreds of thousands | Decriminalized in 4 nations |

🚀 API Endpoints

Root

• GET / - API overview
• GET /health - Health check
• GET /stats - Database statistics
• GET /thesis - Research thesis with evidence

Religions

• GET /religions - All 6 religions overview
• GET /religions/:name - Detailed religion info
• GET /religions/:name/myths - Myth debunking
• GET /religions/:name/legal - Legal victories

Themes

• GET /themes - All 6 themes overview
• GET /themes/:name - Detailed theme info

Available themes: legal-defense, media-misrepresentation, satanic-panic-history, academic-recognition, persecution-mechanics, reform-movements

Guides

• GET /guides - All 5 guides overview
• GET /guides/:audience - Guide for specific audience

Available audiences: lawyers, educators, journalists, practitioners, researchers

📊 Source Data

• Database: religious-freedom-defense-hub
• Collections: 24
• Research Batches: 30
• Source Collections: 474
• Certification: MCP Certified - Quality Rating A

🛠️ Local Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Set environment variable
export MONGODB_URI="your-mongodb-uri"

# Run in development
npm run start:dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run production
npm run start:prod

🐳 Docker

docker build -t religious-freedom-api .
docker run -p 3050:3050 -e MONGODB_URI="your-uri" religious-freedom-api

📖 Swagger Documentation

Visit /api for interactive Swagger documentation.

🎭 Created By

Neko-Arc & Six Personalities

• 🐾 Neko-Arc (Technical)
• 🎭 Mario Gallo Bestino (Automation)
• 🗡️ Noel (Testing)
• 🎸 Glam Americano (Spanish/Ethics)
• 🧠 Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Forensics)
• 🎯 Tetora (Multi-perspective)

📜 License

MIT - Use freely to defend religious freedom.

🐾 nyaa~! Knowledge is power against persecution, desu~! ✨