Category: religious freedom

30-Year-Old Chinese Radio Host Dies in Prison After Being Jailed For His Belief

His lips were streaked with dried blood. His chest was covered with bruises and scars, his legs battered. Footage of a 30-year-old man’s corpse, recently circulated on Twitter and confirmed by The Epoch Times, offered a glimpse of what had happened to him in a Chinese jail cell. Pang Xun, a Falun Gong practitioner, died…


Hypocrisy Leading to an Attack on Religious Freedom

Commentary On Jan. 27, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) released a consultation paper on its inquiry into religious, educational institutions and anti-discrimination laws. The Terms of Reference outlined in the paper require the ALRC to develop proposals for protections against discrimination of students and staff while ensuring that religious educational institutions “can continue to…


National Archives Apologizes, Offers Personal Tour to March for Life Visitors

March for Life participants who were ordered to cover or remove their pro-life attire during a Jan. 20 visit to the National Archives will receive a personal tour as part of a preliminary agreement the two parties reached in litigation. News of the agreement comes after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a…


Supreme Court Considering Whether Offended Atheists May Sue Florida City Over Prayers

The Supreme Court will soon consider whether a city’s sponsorship of a prayer vigil that offended atheists who witnessed it violates the First Amendment. The case comes as the Supreme Court has become increasingly protective of constitutionally based religious freedoms in recent years. The justices are scheduled to consider the petition in City of Ocala,…


Banks Calls on Buttigieg to ‘Correct’ Merchant Marine Academy’s Coverup of Jesus Painting

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is calling on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to act after a historic painting of Jesus on the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s (USMMA) campus was covered up. The 1944 painting, entitled “Christ on the Water,” depicts Jesus standing on the ocean with his arms outstretched as merchant mariners drift in a lifeboat…


Religious Freedom Summit Highlights Atrocities in China, Russia, Nigeria

Commentary Dmitri Bodyu, a Ukrainian American pastor, is a three-time religious refugee who last year added “Russian prisoner” to his list of life-or-death challenges. As a teenager in 1989, Bodyu and his family fled religious persecution in the Soviet Union and moved to Texas where they were given legal refugee status and eventually became U.S….


State AGs Seek Answers From FBI, DOJ Over Targeting of Traditionalist Catholics

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 other Republican state attorneys general expressed “outrage and alarm” Friday following the Feb. 8 leak of an internal FBI memo that characterized Catholics as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” Seeking answers, Miyares pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland for information on how the…


PREMIERING NOW: ‘Unspeakable Crime Against Humanity’—Katrina Lantos Swett on China’s Murder for Organs Industry and the Legacy of Her Father, Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos

I sit down with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and co-chair of the recently concluded International Religious Freedom Summit. We discuss her fight for human rights and religious freedom, including raising awareness about the Chinese regime’s practice of forcibly harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners and…


‘Unspeakable Crime Against Humanity’—Katrina Lantos Swett on China’s Murder for Organs Industry and the Legacy of Her Father, Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos

I sit down with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and co-chair of the recently concluded International Religious Freedom Summit. We discuss her fight for human rights and religious freedom, including raising awareness about the Chinese regime’s practice of forcibly harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners and…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ‘Unspeakable Crime Against Humanity’—Katrina Lantos Swett on China’s Murder for Organs Industry and the Legacy of Her Father, Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos

I sit down with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and co-chair of the recently concluded International Religious Freedom Summit. We discuss her fight for human rights and religious freedom, including raising awareness about the Chinese regime’s practice of forcibly harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners and…