China enacts guidelines stating that popular Korean manhwa will be banned if they criticize the Communist Party or support “illegal” religion.
CCP: Comics from Korea Should Avoid Promoting “Separatism” or Religion
China, All Information Should Be Produced and Distributed by the State
Private companies will be prohibited from publishing or broadcasting news about politics, culture, sport, and pretty much everything else.
Ban of Falun Gong in Hong Kong Promoted Through False Survey
A strange press conference on October 7 claimed that Hongkongers strongly support the application of the National Security Law against the movement.
News From the World
Bangladesh: Hindus Attacked At Durga Puja, 5 Dead
A Hare Krishna temple in Choumuhoni was among the places of worship vandalized after a false blasphemy charge. Two devotees were murdered.
James Huntsman’s Anti-Mormon Lawsuit Fails
Court states billionaire James Huntsman, who left the Latter-day Saints Church, is not entitled to receive his donations back.
Pakistan: Christian Girl of 14 “Magically” Turns 19 and Is Converted to Islam
In yet another case where conversion of a minor was condoned, the Court of Lahore accepted at face value the age on the marriage certificate.
Testimonies From China
Falun Gong: Nurse Gets Four Years for “Inappropriate Remarks”
Having being jailed in the past for distributing flyers, Yin Xianping is told that even talking about a banned movement is a crime.
Ethnic Kazakh Imam Sentenced to 23 Years for “Reciting the Quran Inappropriately”
Social media mobilize for Raguzbay Yizbashar. Meanwhile, human rights defender Serikzhan Bilash’ Facebook accounts have been closed.
Three-Self Church and Communist Party, “One Heart and One Mind”
The National Day offered to the government-controlled Protestant Church the opportunity to call Christians to unconditionally obey the CCP.
Testimonies From the World
Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia Escalates to Torture
In Irkutsk, Siberia, Jehovah’s Witnesses believers were badly beaten and threatened with rape by OMON special forces agents.
Will Bukhara Jews Continue to Exist in Bukhara?
The unique culture of Bukhara Jews is at risk of being lost forever–although it continues abroad, mostly in Israel and in New York.
FECRIS Admits: Hamburg Case Lost Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Was “A Lesson”
While in a public press release the lost case was presented as a victory, in its General Assembly the organization acknowledged things went differently.
Interviews
Tiananmen, 1989: “I Climbed Up the Tank, and Jumped Off the Other Side”
Rose Tang, then a student protest leader, discusses with Bitter Winter those terrible hours and their implications for the current situation.
Op-eds China
Democracy According to Xi Jinping
In an important speech, the Chinese President explains that China is democratic—if you just change the meaning of the word “democracy.”
Featured China
No Sex Please We’re Chinese
China’s demographic crisis, according to a researcher, has a very simple explanation: Chinese work too much, and are just too tired to make love.
Op-eds International
Sexual Abuse and the Secret of Confession: A False Problem?
The French report raised the question: should the priests denounce sexual abuse they learned about in confession? They cannot. But it almost never happens.
Featured International
The Blood Libel Anti-Semitic Myth. 9. The Fixer
Immortalized in Malamud’s novel, the 1913 Beilis trial in Kiev was the last internationally famous case where a Jew was accused of ritual murder.
Documents and Translations
Het onafhankelijke onderzoek van Engeland en Wales naar seksueel kindermisbruik: Jehovah’s Getuigen en de zogeheten twee-getuigenregel
De regel dat twee getuigen nodig zijn geldt alleen binnen het religieus bestuur, en heeft niets te maken met de manier waarop de organisatie communiceert met seculiere autoriteiten.
Het onafhankelijke onderzoek in Engeland en Wales naar seksueel kindermisbruik en Jehovah’s Getuigen
Het rapport is beter dan andere, het erkent de verbeteringen in het beleid van de Jehovah’s Getuigen met betrekking tot de bescherming van kinderen, maar wordt vaak verkeerd uitgelegd door de media.
Die unabhängige Aufarbeitungskommission von England und Wales für sexuellen Kindesmiss-brauch: Jehovas Zeugen und die sogenannte Zwei-Zeugen-Regel
Die Regel, dass zwei Zeugen erforderlich sind, bezieht sich nur auf die innerkirchlichen Verfahren und hat nichts mit der Zusammenarbeit der Organisation mit staatlichen Behörden zu tun.
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