Nina Shea National Review Mar 20, 2022 Link to article As the CCP subjugates Hong Kong’s churches and their schools, no political space to object remains. At Beijing’s insistence last October, Hong Kong’s Bishop-elect Stephen Chow and 15 senior Catholic priests met with the mainland’s state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. As the government watched on…
Link to original article Link to related twitter post In December 2020, the United States’ (US) State Department designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), finding that the government was responsible for engaging in or tolerating “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.” The rather belated decision marked the first time Nigeria had been…
Stand Against Unjust Discrimination: Oppose the Equality Act March 16, 2021 • Cardinal Timothy Dolan • Public Disclosure: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute The Equality Act goes far beyond the noble desire to protect vulnerable people. It burdens consciences, severely curtails the rights of people to practice their faith, smuggles in an abortion mandate,…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-big-step-for-religious-freedom-11591917899 By Nina Shea June 11, 2020 7:25 pm ET For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepcihld in the human-rights side of U.S. foreign policy. But in a rare ray of light this dark spring, America’s defining right has been recognized at the highest level as a “moral and national security imperative.”…
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/experts-form-strategy-coalition-to-protect-christians-and-religious-pluralism-in-sub-sahara-301020929.html Following a surge in beheadings, abductions and other violent assaults by Islamic extremists targeting Catholic priests, Protestant ministers, and ordinary Christians in sub-Saharan Africa, 20 leading experts in international religious freedom convened a three-day emergency strategy session, March 5-7, on how to respond. It was held at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples,…
