Tag: religious freedom

Colorado Website Designer Asks Supreme Court to Affirm Religious Freedom

A Colorado website designer is asking the Supreme Court to accept her appeal of a lower-court decision depriving her of the right to conduct her business according to her religious beliefs. Attorneys for Lorie Smith, the owner and sole employee of 303 Creative, submitted a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court on Sept. 24,…


US Rights Group Calls on UN to Address China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

U.S.-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) is calling on the United Nations to take action against China’s state-sanctioned practice of killing prisoners of conscience to supply organs for its lucrative transplant market. “The failure of the United Nations to address and thoroughly investigate the forced organ harvesting from living people in China…


China’s ‘Commercialized Murder’ in Organ Transplant Industry Must End, UK Official Says

Several politicians from around the world on Sept. 19 took turns in a summit to condemn China’s continued practice of killing prisoners of conscience in order to drive its industrial-scale operations to supply harvested organs to the transplant market. “Organ donation is a precious act of saving a life, but forced organ harvesting is commercialized…


Religion a Threat to Authoritarianism

Commentary As I am an avid reader, I decided to read Jennifer Zeng’s acclaimed memoir “Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong.” This book, published in 2005, is a well-known memoir of a member of the Falun Gong faith who was imprisoned in a Chinese labour re-education facility, tortured, and humiliated until…


Chinese Regime’s Forced Organ Harvesting Could Spread to Other Countries, NGO Director Warns

The communist regime in China would export its horrific practice of forced organ harvesting once it was able to tear down ethical standards in the transplant industry established by the West, warned Dr. Torsten Trey. Trey, founder and executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), sounded the warning during a recent interview with…


Nearly 3,000 Falun Gong Practitioners Harassed in Recent Months

Chinese police harassed nearly 3,000 Falun Gong adherents in the recent two months, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website dedicated to unmasking the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. A Minghui survey said the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution stopped at least 2,941 individuals for following their beliefs. Among them, 884 were kidnapped, 101…


China’s Top Security Prison Kills Dozens of Prisoners Annually

Dozens of prisoners in China die every year because of the prison authorities’ corrupt system and their penchant for enslaving and torturing those in their care. Wang Yuyin (a pseudonym for safety) was a political prisoner in Shenyang First Prison, Liaoning, a coastal province of northern China. He told The Epoch Times on Aug. 19,…


Multiple Falun Gong Practitioners Die in Police Custody in China

Multiple practitioners of Falun Gong lost their lives while in police custody in China since May, according to reports from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based leading website that documents the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) persecution of Falun Gong. The practitioners were prisoners of conscience, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been carrying out systematic persecution against believers…


Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Groups to Launch Global Summit

Five non-governmental organizations (NGO) are planning webinars about battling organ transplants from non-consenting detainees, primarily from Falun Gong adherents, during the coming UN General Assembly in September. The World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting is set to hold six webinars on two consecutive weekends. The first session starts on Sept. 17. Discussions will…


Australian Lawmakers Urge Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

A number of Australian lawmakers from across the political spectrum have written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to consider a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to protest against the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of people of faith and democracy advocates. Sen. Eric Abetz pointed out that he did not mean…