Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims during the sacred month of Muharram unfortunately repeats itself every year
Marco Respinti
Genocide in Tibet: The Tragedy of Tibetan Women
Women are not mothers only, but mothers can only be women. All genocides target women first, as the Tibetan example demonstrates.
A Bitter Winter Reporter Visits the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.
An outstanding testimony to the most printed, translated, and read book of all human history also demonstrates the vital need for religious liberty.
The “Road to Freedom” for Tai Ji Men: Restoration Rather than Revolution
Human beings are made for and of liberty. When they lose it, they need a road to recover it—including in Taiwan.
A Museum for the Victims of Communism in Washington, D.C.
The Museum inaugurated last month by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reconstruct the deadliest catastrophe in human history
The Rediscovery of the Kakure Kirishitan of Japan
Hidden for two centuries and a half, Kakure Kirishitan, the persecuted Catholics, re-emerged in 1865. Bitter Winter offers the first English translation of Pope Francis’ document celebrating them in 2015.
The Unasked Question in the Tai Ji Men Case: What Do We Mean by the Law?
The laws (plural) exist to affirm the supreme law (singular) of justice. They failed to do so in the case of Tai Ji Men.
Supporting Persecuted Christians in Nigeria: An Interview with Croatian MP Marijana Petir
The massacre of Nigerian Christians is at risk of escalating to genocide. A Croatian politician explains how we may help.
Abe Shinzo: The Day He Offered a Magic Mirror to the Pope
While we continue assessing the historical significance and the legacy of the assassinated Japanese Prime Minister, his visit to the Vatican in 2014 is worth remembering.
A Bitter Winter Reporter at the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022
Former Ambassador Sam Brownback and Katrina Lantos Swett hosted the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington, D.C.
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.