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Since October 21, 2022, Eternal Spring (长春), the first Chinese-language film representing Canada in the race for the Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars, began screening in over 70 AMC theaters across more than 40 cities in the United States. In the Greater Washington, D.C. area, the film was showcased simultaneously for three ...
Former Shenzhen fitness coach Chen Weijie, who made his daring journey to the United States in May 2023, declares he will never return to China unless the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule ends. An ancient simplicity at the foothills of the Panamanian jungle Upon his arrival at the base of the Panamanian jungle, Chen Weijie ...
Chen Weijie, a native of Fenyi County, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, and former fitness coach from Shenzhen who migrated to the United States in May 2023, declared he would never return to China unless the Communist Party ceased to rule. Chen Weijie’s early life was marred by hardship. His mother passed away during his childhood, ...
This is a two-part story; please go here for Part 2 Dong Luo Bin was an employee of the Chinese Consulate in Auckland, the capital of New Zealand. However, one day in May 2018, he successfully fled from the consulate and applied for political asylum with the government of New Zealand. This is the first case of ...
Chinese woman Liu Guiying was detained for over 20 months without trial and then sentenced illegally in 2018 to three years in prison in Chengdu City of China’s Sichuan Province. What occurred to Liu was done under the watch of a communist Chinese official named Yu Hui, who was recently sanctioned by the United States. ...
A recent report by the Korea Future Initiative has brought attention to the horrible religious rights violations taking place in North Korea. Titled Persecuting Faith: Documenting Religious Freedom Violations in North Korea, the report was prepared after interviewing 117 survivors, perpetrators, and witnesses of religious violations over a period of seven months. Around 60 percent ...
The Chinese government is famous for the persecution of religious beliefs in their country, whether it be against Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, or others. However, Christian communities in the country are facing ongoing persecution by establishing so-called underground churches, where they are free to practice their beliefs in a genuine way. The underground churches Unlike what ...
Robert O’Brien, National Security Advisor, believes that the U.S. has finally woken up to the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to the American way of life thanks to the Trump administration. For decades, the conventional idea was that China would eventually become more open as time passed by, first economically and then ...
Cardinal Zen from the Catholic Church of Hong Kong sent a letter to the College of Cardinals in September last year, pleading with them to denounce the agreement that the Vatican had made with the Chinese Communist Party. The letter made public recently, begs the Catholic Church not to sit idly as the Church is ...
Guangzhou, a city in southern China, recently introduced a new regulation that gives financial incentives to citizens by rewarding them with up to US$1,400 for reporting “illegal religious activities.” Some commentators pointed out that this regulation is another specific step taken by the Chinese authorities to suppress religious freedom. Guangzhou’s financial incentives for reporting on people ...