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Pompeo: ‘The CCP Demands It Alone Be Called God’

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 ...

Jack Roberts

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

An American’s Love, and Sorrow, for China

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 ...

Nspirement Staff

Professor Arthur Waldron.

‘Finally, the Story Is Getting Out’: Labor Camp Hell in China

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 ...

Max Lu

Kefei Wang.

The World Celebrates Falun Dafa Day in New York

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 ...

Mikel Davis

World Falun Dafa Day parade in New York City.

Vatican Urged to Speak Out Against Organ Harvesting in China

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 ...

Jack Roberts

St. Peter's Basilica.

Despite Crackdown, Falun Gong Spreads in North Korea

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 ...

Max Lu

A Falun Gong banner.

A Grim History: Persecution of Cathars by the Vatican

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 ...

Jack Roberts

The Cathars.

Organ Harvesting in China Assisted by Western Medical Corruption

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 ...

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