USCIRF 2023 Annual Report shows serious regression in several countries and a few new entries. In China and Russia, minorities continue to be persecuted.
Marco Respinti
To Taiwan from Friends: Correct Wrongdoings Against Tai Ji Men, Now
How a delegation of Western scholars and observers, led by “Bitter Winter,” CESNUR and HRWF, practiced its own brand of citizen diplomacy in Taiwan
Pakistan, Imam Threatens to Break the Legs of an Ahmadi School Headmaster
Qari Idrees, of Ahl-e-hadees Mosque, shared an incendiary video. Unfortunately, the case of Masood Bhatti in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is just one among many.
The Right to Know the Truth on the Tai Ji Men Case
The time has come to proclaim the truth on a serious case of blatant violation of freedom of religion or belief.
Pakistan: Yet Another Ahmadi Mosque Vandalized in Punjab
A peaceful religious community continues to be persecuted, including during the holy month of Ramadan.
“Ahmadis Are the Worst Kāfir”: Terror in Pakistan via WhatsApp
Anti-Ahmadi attacks continue to be promoted in new and creative ways. The government ignores them and their dangers.
After the China Fiasco: Macron’s Strange Relationship with Human Rights and Religious Liberty
It is not the first time the French President shows a dangerous tolerance of dictators and a bizarre disregard for freedom of religion or belief.
The Dalai Lama, the Boy, and the CCP: The True Story of a Tempest in a Teapot
Is the Father of Tibet a pedophile? The story can be dismissed as a tempest in a pot of Himalayan black tea but is being maliciously exploited by the CCP and its fellow travellers.
Tibet and Xinjiang: The Usual CCP’s Crimes and the Usual CCP’s Scorn
Once again, a UN committee indicts the PRC for violating human rights. And once again China answers with contempt and lies.
How China’s “Techno-Mediatic Socialism” Controls Global Information
The level of the CCP’s media control throughout the world is already immense. It may become worse, says Joshua Kurlantzick in a new book.
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.