Bitter Winter

A FOIA complaint against USCIS shows secularist activists eager to recast foreign priests, nuns, and temple volunteers as potential slaves—OneTaste style.

Beijing’s autumn gathering of the Central Committee promised cadres tighter discipline, endless study sessions, and lifelong scrutiny, while purges emptied a quarter of the seats.

A man accused of crimes committed in Crewe at a time when he had never set foot in the United Kingdom exposes an ill-conceived police operation

Robert Barnett’s book unveils new ways invented by the regime to control Tibetans, particularly nuns and monks.

Recent abductions of Shincheonji devotees and an agreement signed in a Tokyo law office suggest that a criminal practice may be revived.

Scandinavian media and politicians targeted a minority’s internal discipline, but judges in Oslo and Stockholm demanded evidence and found none.

A staged car crash in Taiwan shows how far Beijing goes to punish laughter and how fragile the ruler’s public image has become.

Lobsang Tenpa had already spent months in custody in 2025. He was accused of encouraging devotees to pray for the Dalai Lama.

Scholars, lawyers, a journalist, and the alleged “victim” examine how prejudice and structural flaws kept a seriously ill man in jail.

Korean pastors, Japanese leftist attorneys, and Beijing’s Communist bureaucrats have formed a united front against conservative religion; so far, it has been effective.