Bitter Winter

From Canon Law to cannon fire: the Moscow Patriarchate’s proselytization campaign in Africa has now taken a sinister turn.

U.S. gold medalist Alysa Liu and her Chinese family have a story of dissent, standing up for the Uyghurs, and being harassed by CCP spies.

In Lanzhou, children and senior citizens are recruited to become “anti-xie-jiao experts.”

The bill now being considered by the Parliament would be the most draconian in the democratic world and mark the quiet death of religious liberty in the country.

A fascinating book shows how Surrealism, “from Mao to now,” served as a survival strategy for dissident artists—and sometimes a gateway to spirituality.

The most significant Italian new religious movement of the 19th century did not exist only in Tuscany. A book reconstructs his history in the Sabina region.

China has published a document meant to be reassuring, but that looks more like a threat.

After the harsh Russian sentence against the Church of the Last Testament’s leader, a member speaks out.

On February 14th, the activist was brutally attacked by Chinese security personnel, in an act reminiscent of persecution in East Turkestan.

Political Sinicization is not the only possible or desirable form of Sinicization. A new book on Jingjiao offers an alternative.