Great media coverage and two petitions to free them is an occasion to publicly share some details on their capture, detention and present state.
Marco Respinti
That Strange Shyness of the EU Towards China
A seminar of scholars and politicians in the European Parliament loses an excellent opportunity to put respect for human rights at the top of priorities.
With the Wang Quanzhang Case CCP Hits the Bottom
The famous human rights lawyer who defended Falun Gong practitioners has been sentenced to 4,5 years in jail. Beijing arrogantly treads on the law again.
An “Ethical Tariff” on China to Defeat Silence and Tepidity
A major three-partisan conference on religious freedom in China held at the European Parliament urged international institutions to wake up in the face of CCP brutality.
A Tale of Two Rival Deities: God and the CCP
Mr. Marco Respinti, Director-in-Charge of Bitter Winter delivered a slightly shortened version of the following text during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China, organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
CAG Exiles Ask for Italy’s Protection
A torchlight procession for peace in Rho requested the Italian government to welcome the victims of religious persecution.
Journal of Religion and Violence: “The CAG Did Not Commit the McDonald’s Murder”
A special issue of the respected academic journal debunks the idea that new religious movements are inherently violent—and that The Church of Almighty God was responsible for the murder of a woman in a McDonald’s in 2014
Death Sentences by the Thousands
Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg will be executed, while Beijing continues to maintain almost total secrecy over the number of people condemned and killed.
The Catholic Church Between China and the French Revolution
A daring AsiaNews analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the 2018 Vatican-China Deal recalls the sad precedent of the Napoleonic attempt to subdue the Church.
“Dozens of my In-Laws Vanished.” The Other 9/11 of Rushan Abbas
That very day her sister and aunt disappeared. It was six days after the renowned Uyghur activist denounced the disappearance of many others – some of them babies.
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.