Decades ago, Kuomintang lost a great occasion to promote real democracy and true justice, casting its dark shadow on the future. The Tai Ji men case shows it all too well.
Marco Respinti
Pakistan, Two Christian Brothers Beaten with Iron Rods and Forcibly Converted to Islam
Azam and Nadeem Masih were savagely abused until they recited the formula of conversion and recorded a video where they said they had converted freely.
“Ye Were Not Made to Live Like Unto Brutes”: Tai Ji Men as Reciprocal Education
Education is the effort to bring human beings up to their inherent and untouchable value. Tai Ji Men performs this supreme duty through its constant appeal to conscience.
Pakistan’s Elections: Religious Minorities Claim Their Rights
A ten-point manifesto asks the new government and Parliament to succeed where politicians have always failed: grant freedom of religion to non-Muslim citizens.
Cold Genocide: Is the World Complicit in Chinese Organ Harvesting?
Despite its magnitude and seriousness, the crime of organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China is still underreported and underestimated.
The European Parliament Condemns China for Persecuting Falun Gong, Mentions Organ Harvesting Again
Resolutions are not enough, yet they are formal acknowledgments by international authorities. This one also denounces the cases of Ding Yuande and Ma Ruimei, which “Bitter Winter” contributed to expose.
Unsung Heroes, Unsung Victims: Tai Ji Men, Justice, and the Elections in Taiwan
In the Tai Ji Men case, we celebrate those who suffered injustice. But where there are heroes, there are also villains.
Pakistan Wants to Ban TikTok for “Immorality”
A tragic incident where a girl killed her sister over a TikTok quarrel is used by conservative clerics to call for a broad crackdown on social media.
The Order of the Soul and the Order of Society According to Tai Ji Men
Tai Ji Men displays and practices true solidarity, based on a deep sympathy for the human being.
European Parliament Condemns Abduction and Indoctrination of One Million Tibetan Children
What China does in Tibet “may amount to genocide,” a resolution passed on December 14 proclaims.
Marco Respinti
Marco Respinti is an Italian professional journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), author, translator, and lecturer. He has contributed and contributes to several journals and magazines both in print and online, both in Italy and abroad. Author of books and chapter in books, he has translated and/or edited works by, among others, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Régine Pernoud and Gustave Thibon. A Senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. educational organization based in Mecosta, Michigan), he is also a founding member as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for European Renewal (a non-profit, non-partisan pan-European educational organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands). A member of the Advisory Council of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, in December 2022, the Universal Peace Federation bestowed on him, among others, the title of Ambassador of Peace. From February 2018 to December 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Family News. He serves as Director-in-Charge of the academic publication The Journal of CESNUR and Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights.