The Catholic martyr of Islamic ultra-fundamentalist terrorism is honored by the city of Brampton. His process of canonization continues.
Marco Respinti
“O Timeless Youth, O Ever Renewed Hope:” A Poem for Tai Ji Men
Controlling the youth is a common feature of all totalitarian regimes. To show it is a real democracy, Taiwan should solve the Tai Ji Men case.
True Friendship, Peace, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Tai Ji Men is the living testimony that friendship can be a problem-solving tool at both domestic and international levels. A 12th-century Cistercian monk taught it already.
A Call for Sanctions to Stop Anti-Uyghur Brutality in Xinjiang
Campaign for Uyghurs, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the World Uyghur Congress, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation call for the use of the Global Magnitsky Act.
Pakistan: Shiites Killed in Gilgit-Baltistan
Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims during the sacred month of Muharram unfortunately repeats itself every year
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.
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.