Tag: persecution

Secret File: CCP Prevents Lawyers From Defending Falun Gong Practitioners

An unpublished official document from a Chinese High Court shows that the Chinese regime ordered judges to prevent lawyers from defending Falun Gong adherents. Not daring to show defendants, their relatives, or the lawyers this unpublished document, a Chinese judge Wang Rongfu yelled at a Falun Gong practitioner’s family member in April: “Don’t argue with…


The 36 Who Dared: Fighting for Freedom in the Heart of Red China

Carrying a large backpack, and clutching a travel guide in one hand, Canadian Joel Chipkar looked the part of a typical tourist. The brown-haired 33-year-old real estate broker, wearing a black jacket and khaki pants, walked briskly to Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital that just over a decade ago had been reddened by…


Banished for Their Belief: A Daring Appeal in the Heart of Red China

Carrying a large backpack, and clutching a travel guide in one hand, Canadian Joel Chipkar looked the part of a typical tourist. The brown-haired 33-year-old real estate broker, wearing a black jacket and khaki pants, walked briskly to Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital that just over a decade ago had been reddened by…


‘Save My Mother’: Toronto Student Seeks Help for Mother Jailed in China

A student at Ontario’s Sheridan College is speaking out against the Chinese regime’s arbitrary detention of her mother and shedding light on the communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong adherents. Liu Mingyuan, 24, is a Chinese student who arrived in Canada this past August to begin her studies in a computer animation program at Sheridan…


‘Save My Mother’: Toronto Student Seeks Help for Mother Persecuted in China

A Toronto college student is speaking out against the Chinese regime’s arbitrary detention of her mother for her belief in Falun Gong. “Today, I am sharing the story about me and my family. But this is also the story of countless Falun Gong practitioners over the past twenty years,” Liu Mingyuan said on Nov. 18…


The 610 Office: From All-Powerful ‘Leading Group’ to Ground Zero in Beijing’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

News analysis Formally arrested on Nov. 5, the charges facing Chinese former vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun go beyond the usual accusations of embezzlement, collecting bribes, and other “violations of discipline” that officials in the communist regime have typically found themselves paying the price for in leader Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign. Sun, who lost…


2 Days Before Release, Prisoner of Conscience in China Beaten to Death

Su Yunxia, 67, was beaten to death at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison on Sept. 4, two days before her five-year-sentence was to end. Jailed for her beliefs, Su was beaten because she refused to give up the previously government-endorsed qigong practise called Falun Gong, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the Chinese regime’s persecution…


Is Atheism Dead?

In this episode of Counterculture with Danielle D’Souza Gill, D’Souza Gill explores the current state of Christianity in America and around the world. She discusses the decline of Christianity in America as well as its explosion abroad and dives into the religious persecution Christians face abroad. She interviews author Eric Metaxas on his new book…


The Chinese Communist Party: Profiting From Persecution

Commentary In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has waged a campaign of persecution to eradicate the cultural and religious identity of Muslim Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Under the patently false pretext of “eliminating terrorism,” the CCP has forced Uyghurs into a torturous, inhumane system of state sponsored slavery and…


Multiple Falun Gong Practitioners Die in Police Custody in China

Multiple practitioners of Falun Gong lost their lives while in police custody in China since May, according to reports from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based leading website that documents the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) persecution of Falun Gong. The practitioners were prisoners of conscience, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been carrying out systematic persecution against believers…