The Beijing regime has added a former U.S. religious official to its sanctions list in response to the United States’ sanctioning of a Chinese official for his involvement in persecuting followers of Falun Gong. Johnnie Moore, a two-time commissioner of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and his family members will be barred from visiting mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said a May 26 press conference. Moore, who has advocated on behalf of suppressed religious groups in China, said it was “an honor to be sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party.” “The CCP [Chinese Communist Party] doesn’t understand the difference between ‘the truth’ and a ‘lie’ but here’s some truth we know: they are weaker than they want us to believe that they are,” he wrote in a statement on Twitter. “We will not hand our world to the CCP to …