They tried to bribe an IRS agent to have the tax-exempt status of a Falun Gong associate group revoked, as part of a Chinese plan to harass abroad religious groups persecuted in China.
Religious Liberty
A Website Continues the Experience of the Buenos Aires Religious Liberty Conference 2024
All speeches are now available through videos in both English and Spanish.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: How One Woman Destroyed France’s Olympic Rhetoric
The athlete who smashed her own world record in 400m hurdles is a member of a church France would call a “cult” if it knew it. And she proclaims it loudly.
China’s Anti-Religious-Freedom Policy: A Threat to World Peace and Stability
An analysis of the brutal repression of religion in Tibet and beyond, based on the author’s panel speech at the July 22 Tokyo’s International Religious Freedom Summit Asia.
Bodhi Gong Believers Sentenced in Inner Mongolia
The Qigong group, which the authorities failed to eradicate, continues to be active and persecuted in several provinces.
Constitutional Court of Colombia: Religious Liberty Includes the Right to a Religious Funeral
A mother detained in a maximum-security jail still had the right to organize a Catholic funeral for her son, which the state should have subsidized since she had no money for it, the Court said.
The Crisis of Butsudan: What Does It Tell Us About Japan?
A fascinating book by Hannah Gould offers an opportunity to reflect on the status of religion in the country.
Another Offshoot of “Human Universal Science” Repressed in China
Raids targeted the group led by Su Shuliang and police are at work to round up members who are still at large.
New Zealand’ Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care and the Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Faulty Report
A biased and unscientific methodology, a selective use of sources, and religious prejudices led to unreliable conclusions.
China Manipulates Archaeology to Claim the Land of the Uyghurs
Archeological findings at the Buddhist Mo’er Temple Site near Kashgar are falsely presented as evidence that “Xinjiang was always Chinese.”