The accusations against BAPS collapsed, exposing how minority religions are too often miscast as criminal. When devotion is mistaken for coercion, freedom of religion is put at risk.
Marco Respinti
Michelle Bachelet at the Court of Communist China
A new photo opportunity with the CCP for the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who failed to confront the regime on the Uyghurs’ cultural genocide.
Tai Ji Men: The Only Possible Peace is Just Peace
In international politics and agitated societies, compromise and appeasement feed more conflict, deepening injustice.
The World is Risking a Uyghur Srebrenica
Three decades ago, a physical genocide was committed in the heart of Europe amid international indifference. In China, a cultural genocide is still being perpetrated amid the same international indifference.
The Tai Ji Men Case: A Violation of Logic and Law
The Supreme Court of a democratic country like Taiwan is the ultimate voice of justice. Yet, the National Taxation Bureau (NTB) ignored its ruling while pretending to act democratically.
Dozens of Western Companies Connected with Slave Labor in the Uyghur Region
Their supply chains include critical minerals for the extraction of which forced labor is massively used.
“Vampires”: A New Portfolio-Book by Massimo Introvigne and Giacomo Porcelli
Vampires and comics, death and immortality. The book’s introduction took Catania’s Etna Comics by storm.
Pakistan: Anti-Ahmadi Hate Speech Now Explicitly Calls for Their Killing
The extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan openly incites to murder and massacre.
Tai Ji Men’s Teachings on Human Conscience: A Remedy for Media Decadence
Exploring the vital role of conscience in media reform and the pursuit of a fairer society based on religious liberty for all.
United by Difference: Pope Francis and Dr. Hong Tao-Tze. A Personal Memoir
On May 15, 2024, the Grand Master of Tai Ji Men met the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in St. Peter’s—a last and lasting moment.
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.