The measure is part of China‘s attempts to enforce ’patriotic education’ among Tibetan students.

By RFA Tibetan — Hundreds of young Tibetan Buddhist monks from Kirti Monastery who were forcibly transferred in September to government-run boarding schools in Sichuan province’s Ngaba county, are being held in “prison-like conditions” in the schools, two sources from the region said. 

by Jiang Tao — Since the CCP initiated a three-year “general battle” in 2019 targeting The Church of Almighty God (CAG), its members have endured escalating persecution, marked by a substantial increase in arrests and convictions. The situation in Guangdong Province has been particularly severe, according to church members and court records “Bitter Winter” has had access to through an insider source.

Dmytro Zelinsky, a 45-year-old Seventh-day Adventist, is serving 3 years in prison for refusing to engage in military mobilization as it conflicts with the tenets of his faith. On June 5, 2023, Judge Tetyana Klim of the Kremenets District Court in the Ternopil region had acquitted him on the basis of Article 35 of the Ukrainian Constitution, which provides, “If the performance of military duty contradicts a citizen's religious beliefs, the performance of this duty shall be replaced by alternative (non-military) service.”

We are glad to announce the release of a new book Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope, co-edited by David W. Kim, a Professor at the Australian National University and Kookmin University, Seoul, and also a member of our Scientific Committee, with Duncan Wright, an Associate Professor at the Australian National University’s School of Archaeology and Anthropology.