The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ramped up its repression of all walks of faith, while labeling believers as people “affected with thought viruses,” according to U.S. religious freedom officials. “Instead of making improvements in the Chinese government’s treatment of people of faith, people of belief, they have been ratcheting up and turning this regime…
Beijing Ramps Up Repression of Faith, Labeling Believers as Carriers of ‘Thought Viruses’: US Religious Freedom Official
US Commission Highlights Beijing’s Religious Repressions
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) held a virtual hearing on Dec. 14 to explore the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) religious freedom violations in China and abroad, while highlighting how Beijing advances its repression via technology and amplifies its malign foreign influence via lobbying. Five expert witnesses from human rights organizations offered their…
US Commission Highlights Beijing’s Religious Repression
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) held a virtual hearing on Dec. 14 to explore the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) religious freedom violations in China and abroad, while highlighting how Beijing advances its repression via technology and amplifies its malign foreign influence via lobbying. Five expert witnesses from human rights organizations offered their…
CCP Continues to Persecute Falun Gong Adherents: US Religious Freedom Commission
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report and a list of victims of religious persecution around the world. The report states the Chinese communist regime continues to persecute Falun Gong adherents by targeting them with charges relating to the practice of faiths deemed unacceptable to the atheist Communist Party. USCIRF…
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Communism Is Threatened by Individuality
I speak with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was elected as vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We discuss his experience seeing the fall of the Soviet Union, what the concerns are in China when it comes to human rights, and his last trip to Hong Kong. We also look into…
Religious Groups in China Forced to Advocate Communism: US Commission
China’s state-sanctioned religious bodies have had to speak for communist policies as the regime has become “increasingly hostile” to snuff out any religious beliefs, said a bipartisan U.S. federal government commission. “In 2021, religious freedom conditions in China deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in its 2022 annual report (pdf) released…
China’s State-Controlled Religious Organizations Forced to Advocate Communism: US Report
China’s state-sanctioned religious bodies have had to speak for communist policies as the regime has become “increasingly hostile” to snuff out any religious beliefs, said a bipartisan U.S. federal government commission. “In 2021, religious freedom conditions in China deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in its 2022 annual report (pdf) released…
China Forms ‘New Axis of Collaborators’ With Pakistan and Taliban, Former US Commissoner Says
The communist regime in China has created a new alliance to challenge the United States and Western democracy, said Johnnie Moore, a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioner. “They’re creating a new axis of collaborators against the Western democratic order,” said Moore, referring to the alliance of China, Pakistan, and the Taliban,…
China Forms ‘New Axis of Collaborators’ With Pakistan and Taliban, Former US Commissioner Says
The communist regime in China has created a new alliance to challenge the United States and Western democracy, said Johnnie Moore, a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioner. “They’re creating a new axis of collaborators against the Western democratic order,” said Moore, referring to the alliance of China, Pakistan, and the Taliban,…
Chinese Communist Party Is ‘Cornered’ as World Awakens to Its Abuses: Religious Freedom Commissioner
WASHINGTON—More than ever, the Chinese Communist Party is finding itself backed into a corner as the world wakes up to its human rights atrocities, according to Nury Turkel, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “China has never been this isolated in the recent memory, and the isolation is making…
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