The story of Li Xianghong reveals how, in today’s China, a prison sentence ends, but the machinery of reprisal does not.
Religious Liberty
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 4. School Surveillance and Coercive Counseling
New schoolbased procedures instruct educators to identify and monitor children from Unification Church families, raising concerns about privacy violations.
The Saga of AROPL: When Headlines Become Weapons
How media fueled the racist riots: coordinated narratives turned a police operation into a public threat.
From Buddha to Racetrack: A Sacred Site in Drakgo Is Rewritten by Force
A revered statue’s grounds become a horseracing field. Cultural erasure in historical Tibet now proceeds through construction as much as demolition and removal.
The Saga of AROPL: Racism, Riots, and Violence
Sensationalist media, fake news, and propaganda fueled a rapid mobilization of violent protests.
Why Konstantin Rudnev Should Not Be Sent Back to Jail
A request submitted to Argentina’s Supreme Court.
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 3. The Government’s “Re-Education” Plan
New state policies introduce schoolbased programs designed to reshape the thinking of minors from Unification Church families.
When the Dao Must March in Formation: The New Management System for Taoist Clergy
The model tightens ideological discipline and expands monitoring, while temples quietly resist pressure to preach political doctrine rather than classical cultivation.
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children
Unification Church in Japan: After the Dissolution, the Purge. 2. Targeting Believers’ Children
China’s Patriotic Catholic Church Promotes the Ethnic Unity Law
The official Catholic body promotes with zeal a law internationally condemned while ignoring the Papal encyclical that the rest of the Catholic world is discussing.