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2023 USCIRF Annual Report Highlights Religious Persecution in China

World NewsMay 6, 20230Comments

May 4, 2023 | By Minghui correspondent Wang Ying (Minghui.org) According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2023 Annual Report released on May 1, 2023, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued to persecute faith groups including Falun Gong in the past year. In response to the ever-worsening human rights abuses in China,…

USCIRF Annual Report: Persecution of Falun Gong Continues in China

World NewsMay 5, 20220Comments

April 28, 2022 | By Minghui correspondent Wang Ying ______________________________________ (Minghui.org) The 2022 Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) was released on April 25. It found that “the religious freedom considerations in China deteriorated” in 2021. Citing information from Minghui.org, the report said at least 101 practitioners had lost their lives to the…

U.S. Officials at All Levels Continue to Condemn the CCP’s Lengthy Persecution of Falun Gong

World NewsJuly 16, 20210Comments

July 15, 2021 | By Minghui correspondent Xu Jing This July 20th marks the 22nd anniversary of the onset of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s persecution of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), a mind-body practice based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Through the years, Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside China have…

USCIRF Human Rights Report: Falun Gong Practitioners Still Persecuted in China for Their Faith

World NewsApril 25, 20210Comments

The religious freedom conditions in China deteriorated in 2020, according to the newest annual report published by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on April 21, 2021. “Although the CCP has long repressed religious freedom, in recent years it has become increasingly hostile toward religion, resulting in campaigns to “sinicise” Islam, Tibetan…

USCIRF Report: Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners Continues in China

World NewsMay 10, 20200Comments

“In 2019 religious freedom conditions in China continued to deteriorate,” wrote the 2020 Annual Report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published on April 28, 2020. The report again recommended designating China as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) like the past 21 consecutive years. The 2020 report highlighted China’s massive surveillance…

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Releases 2016 Annual Report, Expresses Concern for Forced Organ Harvesting in China

World NewsMay 8, 20160Comments

May 06, 2016 | “China’s severe religious freedom violations continued in 2015,” said a statement in the 2016 Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which was recently released and covers the period from February 1, 2015 to February 29, 2016. USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that reviews…