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The United States will defend communities against coercion and intimidation from foreign governments, the State Department told The Epoch Times.
Guo Zhijun said uncensored history and meetings with Falun Gong practitioners dismantled beliefs formed under Beijing’s demonizing information campaign.
Chinese Catholics said the latest directives reflect a broader effort to replace religious autonomy with political loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
A new rule on clans, hometown associations infringes upon basic human rights and is another tool for the CCP’s transnational repression, experts say.
Critics warn the law could target overseas activists and ethnic minorities, drawing condemnation from lawmakers and rights groups.
Scholars say China’s new ethnic unity law institutionalizes assimilation policies and opens the door to pursuing critics overseas.
The Chengdu house church said two elders remained in custody after police and SWAT personnel entered a Sunday gathering in Jiangyou.
In a viral video, one assailant is seen vandalizing display boards and knocking an elderly woman to the ground. Three practitioners were left injured.
Members of the Atajurt rights group say Kazakh police intercepted activists traveling to Astana to discuss Xinjiang-related prosecutions with U.S. officials.
Legal observers said deeper political issues and fiscal pressure remain unaddressed in Beijing’s mass removal of local enforcement personnel.
On May 13, practitioners and supporters from 58 countries and regions sent greetings to Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi for World Falun Dafa Day.
Mr. Xu Shujun was detained by police for hanging up information banners about the Chinese regime’s persecution of his faith.
Ezra Jin Mingri was detained on Oct. 10, 2025, at his home in Beihai, located in China’s southeastern Guangxi Province.
China’s rubber-stamp legislature adopted the measure, effective from July 1, to strictly promote the Mandarin language from preschool.
The show depicted traditional Chinese culture and may have alluded to the communist regime’s oppressive rule, commentators said.
Religious persecution is ‘a warning sign that freedom itself is under siege,’ says the former ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
‘Silence is the oxygen for tyranny,’ a Uyghur activist said.
State-controlled Catholic bodies now require priests and nuns to surrender passports, bringing religious travel under strict CCP oversight.
Rights groups say Chinese Christians have faced escalating repression in recent years.
