U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called out the Chinese Communist Party over its persecution of people in faith. Pompeo highlighted the communist regime’s treatment of Chinese people who adhere to a spiritual path during the June 21 release of the 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. “In China, the government’s intense persecution ...
In 1961, a little boy walked into a Boston art museum and fell in love with paintings from China’s Song Dynasty period. That boy is now an eminent expert on China, a Harvard-educated historian who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and whose career has included posts on high-level U.S. government advisory committees. He has ...
The brutal persecution of people who practice Falun Gong in China has been ongoing since 1999. People knowledgeable of China’s human rights situation are aware of what is happening in Chinese labor camps. Regular folk not so much, that’s why this 9-minute long Fox 11 news report has had such an impact on those who ...
When you think of things to celebrate in May, it’s likely that Mother’s Day and Memorial Day spring to mind. But there’s another event, celebrated annually in May, that recently drew close to 10,000 people to New York from around the world: World Falun Dafa Day. The Chinese spiritual discipline Falun Gong, also known as Falun ...
A leading expert in Chinese affairs has called upon the Vatican to speak out against China’s state-sanctioned organ harvesting industry where prisoners of conscience are allegedly being killed on demand. Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, told Catholic media LifeSiteNews said it was time the Vatican joined a growing chorus of voices condemning ...
Falun Gong has reportedly been spreading in the North Korean capital, but Kim Jong Un’s regime has been cracking down on the spiritual practice that originated from neighboring China. Sources told RFA that authorities in Pyongyang have begun a clampdown on the practice, which has been spreading in the city after it was introduced by ...
May is a good time of year to get together with loved ones and do some activities that are fun for the entire family to celebrate Mother’s Day. It is also the time for millions of practitioners of the Chinese spiritual discipline Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, to mark World Falun Dafa Day. Please ...
Those involved in exposing forced organ harvesting in China know how hard it is to gain the attention that this awful issue rightfully deserves. It’s not just a case that people find it hard to believe the Chinese state can be so evil as to kill innocent people to make money from their organs — ...
The persecution of Cathars by the Catholic Church has to be one of the most violent religious episodes in French history over the past millennium. Cathars were the followers of Catharism, a Christian sect that was prevalent predominantly in southern regions of France between the 12th and 14th centuries. The conflict between Cathars and Catholics emerged after ...
China analyst and human-rights investigator Ethan Gutmann gave the following speech at the at the Czech Republic Senat on March 1. His speech was part of the “Persecution of Families in Times of Unfreedom,” event which is part of the Mene Tekel festival in Prague. As the son of two American psychiatrists — a mixed ...