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                                            April
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China forcing Catholic leaders to be re-educated or lose their jobs
                                        
                                                                                                           China’s Communist Party continues its campaign to control the Chinese Catholic church, forcing leaders to undergo extensive re-education or lose their opportunity to serve the faithful. The process has split the Church
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            02
                                            April
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Free to Speak!
                                        
                                                                                                           This prophetic article from 2019 discusses how the web is a threat to governments which wish to control or repress information.   Now in countries around the world, including Canada, there are moves to take control of the internet.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
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                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China: House Churches Attacked and Banned in Several Provinces
                                        
                                                                                                           In Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jilin, and Sichuan ongoing police raids target churches that refuse to join the CCP-controlled Three-Self Church. 
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            04
                                            April
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Provinces across China work to implement internet restrictions
                                        
                                                                                                           Governments have so much capacity to regulate that what is way over the top today is more easily applied tomorrow. And the Chinese Communist government has been aggressively marketing its repressive measures around the world.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            26
                                            January
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Chinese Government Relentless in separating famlies to punish human rights defenders
                                        
                                                                                                           One more illustration why the Chinese Communist government is not fit to be part of the broader international committee. Tragic story of one more family destroyed.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            18
                                            December
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Foreign influencers used to whitewash Xinjiang abuses: Report
                                        
                                                                                                           The power of governments to manipulate reality is demonstrated by the Chinese governments ability to establish ‘foreign influencers’ to carry its version of what is happening in Xinjiang.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            16
                                            December
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           KYRGYZSTAN: New restrictions in draft new Religion Law
                                        
                                                                                                           Kyrgyzstan’s new Religion Law continues to punish religious minorities.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            16
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Upcoming Online Events
                                        
                                                                                                           There are a number of upcoming global events talking about China and the upcoming Olympics, Christian persecution as well as leadership and human rights around the world that you can virtually attend.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            02
                                            August
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Chinese Pastors Ordered to Preach on President's Speech
                                        
                                                                                                           President Xi Jinping continues his attempts to hijack the faith of Chinese Christians and pastors
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            27
                                            June
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Flattered to Be on China’s Sanctions List 
                                        
                                                                                                            Criticism of the Chinese government typically attracts a quick reaction. Two Commissioners of the USCIRF respond to being placed on the Chinese Communist Party’s sanctions list.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            27
                                            June
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China shuts down Bible App and Christian WeChat
                                        
                                                                                                           The Chinese government continues harassment of Christians by further interfering with their ability to access Christian material and websites, even as state sponsored churches crank up their indoctrination using President Xi’ promotional propaganda
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            23
                                            June
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Key Findings Regarding Christian Persecution in China for 2020
                                        
                                                                                                           China’s ongoing persecution of Christians is not new news. But organizations such as ChinaAid keep us all up to date on the latest happenings. This is a summary of most recent China Aid report.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            05
                                            April
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
                                        
                                                                                                           As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            24
                                            January
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China brings its cruel crackdown on Uighur advocates to the U.S.
                                        
                                                                                                           I have had the privilege of meeting with Ziba Murat and Rushan Abbas to hear their agonizing story  - of a elderly relative, a retired medical doctor being punished by the Chinese regime because they dare to speak up about the Uighur persecution. 
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            24
                                            January
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Turkish Parliamentary approves extradition with China in its hunt for Uyghur refugees
                                        
                                                                                                           China continues to expand its global reach to punish those who dare to speak out about the regime’s abuses.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            24
                                            January
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           USCIRF Condemns Harsh Sentence for Christian Bookseller in China
                                        
                                                                                                           The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns the harsh and disproportionate sentence handed down to Chinese Christian bookseller Chen Yu.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
			
			Government officials in Shanxi’s Taiyuan city destroyed a temple’s religious books and threw them to the trash.
           
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            15
                                            December
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           The Chinese government has turned up the pressure on Christians withing China
                                        
                                                                                                           After banning anyone under 18 from even entering a church building they are now going after printed material. Books that were previously published are now being used as evidence to sentence printers and authors to long term prison sentence.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            14
                                            December
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Christmas in China’s prison cells
                                        
                                                                                                           Here is a tribute to so many in China who were paying a price this Christmas for their courage.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            28
                                            October
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           UN HRC 45 Side Event: China Bans Faith for All Children
                                        
                                                                                                           Here is an introduction to a very important event highlighting the incredible pressure China is putting on parents and children as they continue to decimate personal rights, in this case the right to belief.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            01
                                            October
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           A Bill is being proposed in the United States to outlaw the Chinese Communist Party
                                        
                                                                                                           The Bill would designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational organized crime group.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            28
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Genocide Should Be Bad For Business
                                        
                                                                                                           How far Do regimes like China and Mynamar have to go before right minded people and governments make them pay a price for their cruelty?
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            24
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China continues to erase the cultures of its own citizens’
                                        
                                                                                                           The Chinese Government has embarked on a systematic and intentional campaign to rewrite the cultural heritage of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). 
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            23
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           China continues to interfere with families and with the fundamental right of children to believe
                                        
                                                                                                           NGO's demand the U.N. pressure China to take immediate steps to ensure the right to Freedom of Religion and Belief for children in China and cease violence against children from religious faiths.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
			
			Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri, Nigeria, inspects a burned church in his diocese in 2015, which has been a target of Boko Haram. COURTESY | AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED
           
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            16
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Christian persecution at all-time high, say experts at Alexandria conference 
                                        
                                                                                                           The Saints Peter and Paul Conference in Alexandria heard from speakers from all around the world,including India, China and Nigeria.  They all had one thing in common, they spoke for the persecuted Christians suffering within their homelands.
                                         
                                     
                             
                                
                                
                                                     
  
			
			Walt Disney Pictures
           
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            08
                                            September
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                        
                           Disney Under Fire for Filming ‘Mulan’ in Chinese City with Uyghur Concentration Camps
                                        
                                                                                                           Disney has drawn a backlash for its indifference to religious freedom and human rights, cozying up to the Chinese Communist Party and filming parts of its new live action blockbuster  in a city that incarcerates Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.