Tag: religious freedom

Justice Neil Gorsuch: Religious Freedom’s New Champion

Commentary Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups historically victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant. Some see Neil Gorsuch, nominated by former President Donald Trump to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as Scalia’s natural successor: Both were or…


Elderly Chinese Falun Gong Practitioner Dies 3 Days After Release from Notorious Prison

A 76-year-old practitioner of Falun Gong died three days after she was released from a notorious Chinese prison, according to Minghui.org, a U.S-based website that documents the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of the spiritual practice. Liu Shuhua was found to have lost her memory when guards from northeastern China’s Liaoning Women’s Prison sent her…


Lawyer Loses License After Angering Chinese Regime by Defending Falun Gong Practitioners

The Chinese regime revoked lawyer Liang Xiaojun’s lawyer license on Dec. 16 because he was defending Falun Gong practitioners, some of whom have been detained for their beliefs. “You are the director of Beijing Daoheng Law Firm and a professional lawyer. But you publicly denied that Falun Gong is a cult, and kept on supporting…


Keep the Churches Open | Counterculture

In this episode of Counterculture with Danielle D’Souza Gill, Danielle advocates for keeping our churches open despite attempts to shut churches down. Danielle does not shy away from advocating for the protection of our religious freedom. She interviews Pastor David Engelhardt about how he kept his church open in New York City in the face of…


Human Rights Day: Daughter Calls for Immediate Release of Innocent Mother Imprisoned by the CCP

At noon, on Dec. 10, 2021, Gao Hongmei held a blue banner while standing across from the Chinese regime’s Consulate General in New York. She stood motionless, looking straight ahead, while thinking about her mother who has been in a Chinese prison for over a year for her spiritual beliefs. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…


Daughter Calls for Immediate Release of Mother Imprisoned by the CCP Over Her Belief

At noon, on Dec. 10, 2021, Gao Hongmei held a blue banner while standing across from the Chinese regime’s Consulate General in New York. She stood motionless, looking straight ahead, while thinking about her mother who has been in a Chinese prison for over a year for her spiritual beliefs. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…


World Must Challenge the CCP’s ‘Evil Designs,’ End Forced Organ Harvesting: Rep. Perry

The Chinese Communist Party has industrialized the murder of prisoners of conscience for their organs, and it must be stopped, a group of lawmakers from the United States and other countries said on International Human Rights Day. “These are living people having their organs taken from them,” U.S. Rep Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said at a…


US Needs to Be a Moral Leader on Human Rights: Sen. Markey

A senator has called for the United States to lead the world in combating human rights abuses, notably in China. “The United States has a responsibility not just as the economic military leader but as the moral leader of the world to shine a spotlight on human rights violations no matter where they exist on…


US Needs to Lead the World on Human Rights: Sen. Markey

A senator has called for the United States to lead the world in combating human rights abuses, notably in China. “The United States has a responsibility not just as the economic military leader but as the moral leader of the world to shine a spotlight on human rights violations no matter where they exist on…


Injected With Unknown Medication in Jail, Innocent Woman Passed Away in China

A labor camp in China injected a 63-year-old Chinese woman with unknown medication for seven days. The woman, detained for her spiritual beliefs, suffered for four-and-a-half months before passing away on Nov. 18. Kang Aifen had been suffering with hypertension long before police from the Qianjin police bureau in Jiamusi city, Heilongjiang Province, suddenly broke…