The Treccani encyclopedic dictionary defines the neologism post-truth as "an argument, characterized by a strong appeal to emotion, which, being based on widespread beliefs rather than verified facts, tends to be accepted as truthful, thus influencing public opinion." During the TV program "Galà dei 500" broadcast yesterday evening, December 17, 2025, on Canale 5 TV, host Piero Chiambretti asked his guest, movie director Gabriele Muccino, who was recounting a visit to Tom Cruise's home: "But when you looked in the house, did you see any traces of Scientology there, at the house of ..., was there a small altar?"

December 10 is the International Human Rights Day celebration, established to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. 77 years have passed since then. However, although the declaration has been signed by all UN member states, and. almost all countries in the world (193), its implementation is still lacking and human rights violations are a daily source of unspeakable crimes.

by Fang Yongrui — He traveled to Korea’s Jeju Island with friends. Nobody escaped. All returned. But it was enough to go to jail.

It begins, as so many Chinese legal dramas do, with a perfectly ordinary act. A pastor buys a plane ticket, passes through customs, and takes his friends to South Korea’s Jeju Island—a visafree paradise better known for honeymooners than dissidents. They return home, suntanned and unscathed. Months later, the pastor is in shackles, accused of “organizing others to cross the national border illegally.”

Washington D.C. — The U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reiterates it’s call for the U.S. government to work with Pakistani officials to take measurable steps to amend or repeal its blasphemy law. Recently the Pakistani government banned the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). The TLP has incited violent mobs to intimidate and attack religious minorities, even calling for the death penalty as punishment for violating blasphemy laws. This impacts members of the Christians, Ahmadiyya Muslims, and others.