The Society of Threatened People urges the UN Human Rights Council to hold the People’s Republic of China accountable for its crimes. And it is time for wrapping up the 2024 UPR China report too.
Marco Respinti
Whatsoever Ye Would That Men Should Do to You, Do Ye Even So to Tai Ji Men
If observed and implemented, the “Golden Rule” is a sufficient guarantee for true justice. Tai Ji Men tries to observe it. We ask its persecutors to do the same.
The Catholic Church in China, AD 2024: A Tale of Two Sinicizations and Two Dragons
This year is full of symbolism, anniversaries, and deadlines. It can mark the beginning of the end of the Catholic Church in China—or the end of the beginning.
Whatever Happened to China’s 2024 Universal Periodic Review?
A hodgepodge of technicalities at Geneva’s Human Rights Council is already resulting in nothing. This is how the United Nations functions in 2024.
Murder of Sindh Activist Hidayatullah Lohar in Pakistan Calls for International Reaction
A political assassination came in an unbearable climate of constant persecution.
Hindus as Targets in Pakistan: A Report
In a country of institutionalized religious persecution, Hindus continue to pay a heavy price. “Bitter Winter” collected several testimonies.
Superman, Tai Ji Men, and the Long Shadow of the 228 Incident
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.
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.
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.