Tag: religious freedom

PREMIERING 2/7 at 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…


Chinese Police Sold Organs From Executed Prisoners 30 Years Ago, Witness Says

It’s not uncommon to see someone breaking down in tears in hospitals. So when Guo Zhigong, who was being treated for aplastic anemia, tried to help a fellow patient who was crying, he didn’t expect to hear a story about China’s opaque organ transplant business. The patient, in his 40s, was worried about a kidney…


Chinese Police Sold Organs From Executed Prisoners, Witness Says

It’s not uncommon to see someone breaking down in tears in hospitals. So when Guo Zhigong, who was being treated for aplastic anemia, tried to help a fellow patient who was crying, he didn’t expect to hear a story about China’s opaque organ transplant business. The patient, in his 40s, was worried about a kidney…


Stories of State-Sanctioned Abuse, Murder Highlight Importance of First Amendment

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her, hoping to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


Victims of Communist China’s Assault on Faith Speak in Support of Religious Freedom

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her meant to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


Stories of State-Sanctioned Murder, Abuse Highlighted at Religious Freedom Summit

As Beijing staged a dazzling $100 million spectacle hosting the Winter Olympics last year, Ji Yunzhi lay dying up north in a Chinese hospital. She had a mere breath left after the rounds of torture inflicted on her meant to scare her into renouncing her faith. Iron ankle fetters and handcuffs chained her to the hospital…


Capitol Report: House GOP Holds First Hearing on Southern Border in New Congress; Biden Documents Probe Expands

Another search for classified documents was conducted at President Joe Biden’s beach home in Delaware. What was retrieved from his Rehoboth Beach House, and what was the White House’s reaction? Congress’s first hearing on border security was held Wednesday in the House’s judiciary committee. Is the GOP laying the groundwork to impeach the secretary of…


Chinese Activists Connect With Universal Message in Article by Founder of Falun Gong

For thousands of years, parents in China and elsewhere in the world have imparted to their children that kindness will be rewarded and evil punished. That value, embedded in traditional Chinese culture, was believed to be imparted by the divine. “But the Communist Party indoctrinated people with atheism. The spread of the ideology has brought…


Blinken and Yellen Must Address CCP Crimes on China Trip: GOP Letter

A group of Republican lawmakers is urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen to hold China’s communist regime accountable during their upcoming trips to China. Blinken and Yellen are both slated to visit China in the coming weeks, marking the highest level diplomatic visits by the United States to…


Sen. Lankford Calls on Blinken to ‘Shine a Light’ on CCP’s Atrocities in Upcoming Beijing Trip

One Republican senator is pressing the secretary of state to hold China’s communist regime accountable for its human rights violations during an upcoming trip to Beijing. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) issued a letter (pdf) to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Jan. 31, asking Blinken to “make defending the oppressed a defining focus” of his…