Tag: persecution

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…


LIVE NOW: International Religious Freedom Summit 2023 (Jan. 31 Afternoon Part 2)

The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 in Washington, D.C. The summit is intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit is also held to increase public awareness and political strength for…


International Religious Freedom Summit 2023 (Jan. 31 Afternoon Part 2)

The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 in Washington, D.C. The summit is intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit is also held to increase public awareness and political strength for…


2 Falun Gong Adherents Die From Persecution During Lunar New Year

The Chinese communist regime never ceased its persecution of Falun Gong adherents during its three years of COVID-19 lockdowns. At the beginning of 2023, two elderly Falun Gong adherents lost their lives after years of suffering from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution campaign of Falun Gong. The deceased are Cui Xiuzhen from China’s…


Art Exhibit Shows Award-Winning Documentary ‘Eternal Spring’ at Reception

MILPITAS, Calif.—The Classical Arts Foundation, a nonprofit aiming to preserve and nurture the classical arts, hosted a reception and showing for the award-winning film “Eternal Spring” at the Milpitas library on Jan. 21, ahead of the Lunar New Year. The reception and film showing was part of the foundation’s art exhibit inside the library. “The…


US Sanctions CCP Official for Persecuting Falun Gong

The United States has sanctioned a Chinese official for his role in persecuting the faith group Falun Gong, which the communist party ruling China has targeted in an unrelenting eradication campaign for more than 23 years. Tang Yong, formerly a deputy director of the Chongqing Area Prisons in southwestern China, is now designated a gross…


At All Costs: A CCP Leader’s War Against Faith

For as many as 100 million Chinese, the year 1999 was a watershed moment in their lives. That year, a massive nationwide persecution began under the orders of Jiang Zemin, then the Chinese Communist Party boss, a campaign that indiscriminately targeted adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong. Jiang, described by some rights advocates as…


‘Keep Up the Fight’: Toronto Rally Held in Support of Protestors in China

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Grange Park in downtown Toronto on the evening of Dec. 3, to support the “White Paper Revolution” in China that calls for an end to Beijing’s draconian “zero-COVID policy” and the Chinese regime’s brutal persecution of religious and ethnic minority groups. Multiple civil rights associations attended the gathering, including the Toronto…


Death of Former CCP Leader Signifies End of ‘Horrific Era’: Rights Advocate

While held at a Chinese labor camp, Henry Yue was forced to wind metal coils used in television sets, day in and day out. The grueling conditions were such that blood would sometimes gush out from Yue’s nose, leaving large crimson patches on his blue-and-white striped prison uniform. The first time it happened, Yue held up…