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Bitter Winter

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Churches burned in August in Pakistan. From Twitter.

09/15/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Pakistan, Police to Christian Churches: “Hire Private Guards, We Cannot Protect You”

After bloody assaults to dozens of churches, Karachi police has found a solution for the Christians: “Deploy private security guards.”

Wang Fang singing on the ruins of Mariupol Drama Theatre. From Weibo.

09/12/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Chinese Performer Offends Ukraine by Singing in the Destroyed Mariupol Drama Theatre

Wang Fang, the wife of pro-CCP blogger Zhou Xiaoping sang the Soviet song “Katyusha” in a place where Russians killed more than 300 civilians.

Arrested: Shiite cleric Agha Baqir Al Hussaini. From Facebook.

09/06/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Here We Are: Leading Shiite Cleric Arrested in Pakistan Based on New Blasphemy Law

“Bitter Winter” correctly predicted that new penalties against those who “offend the wives and companions of the Prophet” were intended for cracking down on Shiites. 

Members of New Life Church gather outdoors in Minsk after their church building has been destroyed. From Facebook.

09/05/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Belarus: Persecution of New Life Church Enters a New, Dangerous Stage

Courts have banned as “extremist” Internet postings the church had long since removed. These are steps preparing New Life’s Russian-style “liquidation.”

Markov’s interview

08/30/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Russia Claims that Ukrainian Counter-Offensive Uses “Gay Super-Soldiers” Created by “Cults”

Academic Sergei Markov absurdly claimed on prime-time state TV that Ukraine cooperates with Neuro-Linguistic Programming to brainwash soldiers who become homosexual, zombie-like, and invincible.

Marcelo Colombo and María Alejandra Mángano, the two state attorneys who lead PROTEX. Source: Argentinian Government.

08/29/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Argentina: Government Promotes the Pseudo-Scientific Theory of Brainwashing

Theories about “coercive persuasion” most scholars of religion regard as debunked from decades are officially advocated by governmental agencies.

Christians sleeping in the fields after having been compelled to leave their homes. From Twitter.

08/25/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Pakistan: Mob Burned Churches, Police Arrests—Christians

The real instigators of the attacks against Christian places of worship have not been arrested. Two Christian brothers are in jail accused of blasphemy.

Anti-Shiite protests in Pakistan. Screenshot.

08/11/2023 Massimo Introvigne

Shiites Risk Life in Jail Under New Pakistani Legislation

Maximum penalties for those “disrespecting wives, family members and companions of the Prophet”—some of whom are cursed by Shiites—pass from 3 years to life.

One of the famous Holodomor pictures by Alexander Wienerberger (1891–1955). So common was death by starvation in Ukraine in 1933 that passersby ignored the corpses. Credits.

08/04/2023 Marco Respinti

Italian Senate Recognizes Ukraine’s Holodomor as Genocide Amidst Russian Protests

Italy becomes the 22nd country to acknowledge the genocidal nature of Stalin’s artificial famine, which the Putin regime stubbornly continues to deny.

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