Bitter Winter

Germany’s quiet retreat from a thirty-year surveillance practice marks a return to legal fairness after a policy that caused stigma rather than security. 

New legal tools expand against routine church activity. Kaili City remains a center of anti-Christian repression.

Campaigns targeting “cults” for their leaders’ real or alleged wrongdoings cause massive unnecessary and innocent suffering.

Power and legitimacy determine how much influence an accusation holds. Groups labeled as “cults” are seldom given fair treatment.

She played a crucial role in alerting the world to the genocide against the Uyghur. Now, she has told her story in a book.

Silence on the Uyghur issue would make it easier for the Chinese to manipulate any statement the U.S. President makes. 

In addition to ready-made stories for sale, the media can also produce scripts for more aggressive forms of state control.

Uyghurs celebrated their skullcap this month. It is much more than a headpiece. 

When leaders of religious minorities are accused of sexual crimes, media narratives can quickly mark the entire collective as either accomplices or victims.

The public French broadcaster treated theology as a subject of ridicule and excluded Scientologists and independent experts from its show.