Dr Olzi Jazexhi accepted the CCP’s invitation to visit the transformation through education camps. He concluded they are jails, not schools. The CCP quickly retaliated.
Massimo Introvigne
The Beijing Declaration on Human Rights: A Fraudulent Document
The CCP recruited its friends to sign an alternative declaration on human rights, whose aim is in fact justifying Chinese and other violations of the same human rights.
Nazi-Style CCP Book Burning Targets Religious Books
Images of books removed from libraries in China and publicly burned evoke disturbing reminiscences of the Nazi campaign of 1933.
Chinese Persecution of Religion Denounced in the Lithuanian Parliament
An international conference evidences the repression of all religions by the CCP, with a focus on Ethnic Kazakhs and The Church of Almighty God.
Chinese Ethnic Kazakh Refugees in Kazakhstan: A New Dramatic Case
Two ethnic Kazakhs escaped detention and torture in China and entered Kazakhstan, but they risk being sent back there, says their lawyer Lyazzat Akhatova
China Is Clearly Unfit to Host Olympics in 2022 – But IOC Will Not Intervene
Ten U.S. Senators tell the International Olympic Committee that China’s human rights violations are incompatible with the Olympic spirit – they will not be heard.
Uyghur Act Passed by the U.S. House: Good, But What’s Next?
The new law is a tougher version of a bill passed last September in Senate. It still needs Senate and President Trump’s approval—and a look at context.
USCIRF “Adopts” 35 Chinese Prisoners—25 Are Members of The Church of Almighty God
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delivers a powerful blow to China. This proves just how useful USCIRF is, despite criticism by some US lawmakers.
China’s Anti-Christian Student League of 1922: Preparing the Persecution
Arguments and campaigns of the 1920s against Christianity were still used in subsequent decades, from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.
Mongolian Buddhism: Under the Shadow of the CCP
Since 2012, Buddhists in Mongolia are without an officially recognized Jebtsundamba, their local leader. Beijing claims Mongolia should only enthrone a CCP-friendly Jebtsundamba – or else.
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.