China

Hundreds of pastors protest CCP action to shut down all but government-controlled houses of worship.

Systematic, ongoing violations of religious freedom

Government requires adherence to the sinicisation of Christianity

China has implemented new repressive guidelines.

Defying the Chinese Government’s claim that it alone may name Tibetan Buddhist leaders.

Observant Chinese in Henan must register on a government app to attend religious services.

The Vatican has come under criticism from human rights advocates.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet issued a report accusing China of violations amounting to crimes against humanity.

India’s highest civilian award

Enes Kanter Freedom holds a clinic in basketball and mutual understanding

Catholic missions should brace for an even grimmer future, as civil liberties continue to crumble in the former British colony.

Nearly one in 25 Muslim residents of Konasheher County has been imprisoned on terrorism charges.

90-year-org cardinal arrested and charged for raising funds for Hong Kong activists.

Government regulations forbid posting religious information on the internet without prior official permission.

In December 2021, with the Olympics on the horizon, U.S, Senate approved banning imports from China’s Xinjiang province.

An American family has taken to the Colorado wilderness to focus public attention on human rights abuse occurring 6,700 miles away in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the minority Muslim Uyghur community.

Bishop Andrea Han Jingtao, a leader in China’s underground Catholic Church, died December 30 at age 99.

House of Representatives approves legislation to ban imports from Xinjiang, based on reports of more than 1 million Muslim Uyghurs and other minority Muslim ethnic groups being detained and subjected to forced labor.

Bitter Winter, a cooperative enterprise by scholars, human rights activists, and members of religious organizations persecuted in China.

An activist for the rights of the Muslim Uyghur community in China’s Xinjiang province has made history by becoming the first member of that minority group to be appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

USCIRF Annual Report calls for China to be once again be designated on the State Department’s list of “Countries of Particular Concern,” citing crimes against the Uygar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Throughout the Islamic world, Ramadan is a time of contemplation and renewal. But in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, its observance has been outlawed.

Congressman Randy Hultgren of Illinois is advocating for the release of poet Zhu Yufu, imprisoned in China three times since 1999. His current 7-year sentence that began in 2011 was for “inciting subversion” at least in part for writing and publishing this poem: The Square belongs to everyone.

China’s cabinet has passed new rules to regulate religion to bolster national security, “fight extremism” and restrict faith practiced outside organizations approved by the State.