Tag: religious freedom

Constitution, Basic Principles Being Violated in US Amid Pandemic: Constitutional Lawyer

Basic principles such as freedom of assembly and freedom of worship guaranteed by the American Constitution are being violated amid the COVID-19 pandemic.


China in Focus (May 12): US Unveils International Religious Freedom Report

The United States has released its 2020 International Religious Freedom Report. It’s also announcing a visa ban on one Chinese official over his involvement in human rights abuses. A concentration camp survivor is exposing the atrocities she witnessed while detained. She shares her experience about torture methods used there, as part of China’s genocide against…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (May 12)

The Secretary of State announces sanctions on a Chinese official alongside the annual International Religious Freedom report, an influential name in American politics has just been stripped of power, and gasoline shortages surge in Georgia and Virginia following the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline.


Indiana Court Tosses Lawsuit of Gay Teacher Fired by Catholic High School

An Indiana court has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by a Catholic high school teacher who was fired over his same-sex marriage. The lawsuit was filed by Joshua Payne-Elliott, who had worked as a world language and social studies teacher at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis for 13 years. In 2019,…


Australians Support Falun Dafa Practitioners on World Falun Dafa Day

MELBOURNE, Australia—Federal Liberal MP Tim Wilson, Australia’s former human rights commissioner, has given his support to Falun Dafa practitoners on World Falun Dafa Day saying he believes liberal democratic countries, like Australia, have a responsibility to uphold religious freedoms in the face of “cultural hegemony,” being imposed by oppressive authoritarian regimes such as the Chinese Communist…


Championing America’s First Freedom

Commentary The right to worship freely is often called America’s first freedom. Our founding fathers understood religious freedom not as the state’s creation but as an unalienable right from God. This universal right is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states,…


Rubio Leads Bipartisan Thrust Urging Biden to Fight for Religious Freedom Worldwide

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday led a bipartisan group of legislators calling on President Joe Biden to take a more decisive role in protecting religious freedom across the world and fill the position of Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, something the president has not yet done after over 100 days in office. “Today,…


Inside Communist China’s War on Faith—USCIRF Commissioner Nury Turkel, Born in a Chinese Re-Education Camp

Nury Turkel was born in a Chinese re-education camp where his mother was imprisoned at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution. Now, he’s a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The Chinese Communist Party has been waging a war on faith, Turkel says. Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are being treated as…


More House Christians Detained in Southwest China

In Guiyang, the capital of southwestern China’s Guizhou province, there have been new reports of crack downs on underground churches by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after pastor Zhang Chunlei was placed under criminal detention in March. In mid-March, Yang Kaichun and Hou Zeyan—house church members and residents of Anshun city, which is 90 kilometers…


Chinese Regime Building Fraud Case Against Detained Christian Pastor, Subpoenas Wife

After Zhang Chunlei, a pastor of a Christian house church in the capital of Guizhou province, was illegally detained last month on fraud allegations, his wife was subpoenaed and held in handcuffs and shackles by police for 24 hours on April 21. A rights lawyer revealed to The Epoch Times that he believed the Chinese…