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.
Marco Respinti
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.
Xinjiang: Xi Jinping Launches “Phase Two” of Repression
The President’s recent visit to Xinjiang, where he promised to enforce a “Marxist view of religion,” is reminiscent of Scipio sowing the city of Carthage with salt.
Hazaras: Persecution Denounced in the Italian Parliament
The Shiite minority is discriminated both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is time for governments that send humanitarian help to ask that it reaches the Hazaras as well.
Human and Humane Ecology: Where Tolkien Meets Tai Ji Men
Could the harmony reigning among Tai Ji Men dizi be the reason bureaucrats persecute it? The answer may lie in a literary myth.
Hindu Temple Attacked in Karachi
The place of worship was vandalized and an idol was desecrated. Will the police seriously pursue the matter?
Tai Ji Men: A Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
It is time for the movement’s contribution to world peace to be recognized and, at the same time, for justice to be restored.
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.