Sometimes words have two meanings, and great abuses may come from ideological confusion. It is not a French problem only.
Marco Respinti
Why Secularism Is Dangerous. 1. An Outrageous Crime in France: Kids Pray
Recent events confirm France’s stubbornness in preventing any public manifestation of religions. To get the work done, secularism mobilizes state teams aimed at re-educating children in schools.
2023 Jalsa Salana Celebrated Sorrows and Hopes of the Ahmadis
“Bitter Winter” visited the annual gathering of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in the muddy countryside of Surrey, discovering rich pearls of faith and humanity.
Italian Senate Recognizes Ukraine’s Holodomor as Genocide Amidst Russian Protests
Italy becomes the 22nd country to acknowledge the genocidal nature of Stalin’s artificial famine, which the Putin regime stubbornly continues to deny.
Harry van Bommel: “There is Enough Evidence, in 1971 in Bangladesh There Was a Genocide”
The former Dutch MP led a fact-finding team to the Asian country. His conclusion: no more doubts are possible.
Target Falun Gong. 4. Save Ma Xiuyun and Tang Pingshun, There Is Still Time
Falun Gong practitioners go in and out of prisons, often for long periods, suffering torture and abuses. Their only crime is to follow a spiritual path.
Tai Ji Men Is Innocent: Why Is It Treated as if It Were Guilty?
The question still resounds with no answer sixteen years after the Supreme Court of the Republic of China ruled that all accusations against Tai Ji Men were inconsistent.
Target Falun Gong. 3. “Help Free My Parents”: The Story of Ding Lebin
Ma Ruimei and her husband, Ding Yuande, were arrested on May 12, 2023. Ma was freed on bail, Ding is still in prison. Their son is relentlessly fighting for their freedom. We interviewed him.
Target Falun Gong. 2. A Letter to 44 Governments Calls Them to Sanction 19 CCP Criminals
They are involved in 15 filed cases of open persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. It would be cynical to foresee that no government will respond. But if at least some will, a new era begins.
Parliamentarisms vs the “Tyranny of the Majority” and the Tai Ji Men Case
Parliamentarism is the worst form of government except for all the others. But it may degrade into tyranny of the majority as the Tai Ji Men case shows all too well.
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.