Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

NEWS FROM CHINA

Deepfake Chinese Sexual Harassment Campaign Hits Hong Kong Dissidents Abroad
Letters and pictures describing pro-democracy exiles as sex workers and advertising their “services” are sent to their families, neighbors, and employers.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD

The Kamran Salamat Case in Pakistan: Police Investigation Stalls in Pastor’s Killing
The Presbyterian clergyman survived an attack in September but was shot outside his home on December 5.
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TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
The Party Wants Your Children: China’s New Crusade in Moral Engineering
A “Symposium on the work of ideological and moral construction of minors” offered “important instructions” from Xi Jinping on how children should be indoctrinated.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
A Christmas Letter from the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Before us is not just a war, but a deliberate, systematic, calculated, and technologically sophisticated mass murder of innocents.
FEATURED CHINA
“Imprisoned Souls” by Aziz Isa Elkun: A Review
A new anthology reveals the suppressed voices of Uyghur poets, most of whom are in jail.
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
Grant Wallace: Psychic Art, Theosophy, and Spiritualism
From his cabin in California, the artist believed he could communicate with deceased, extraterrestrials, and higher beings through a “mental radio.”
OP-EDS CHINA
Beijing Occupies Taiwan, as Puma Shen’s Case Demonstrates
The People’s Republic of China’s treatment of a Taiwanese lawmaker as a criminal under its own laws effectively denies the legitimacy of the island’s democratic system.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
Is Yoga Fascist? Why Stewart Home’s “Fascist Yoga” Goes Too Far
The book has value and uncovers some disturbing connections, but ultimately collapses under the weight of its sweeping and unfair generalizations.
INTERVIEWS

The Victoria, Australia, Anti-Cult Inquiry: Interview with Professor Keith Thompson
Victoria is not the only part of the world where minority religions are stigmatized and harassed. But is at risk of becoming one of the worst.
DOCUMENT AND TRANSLATIONS

司法の中立性は任意なのか:不当な日本の判決が“再び”統一教会を標的に
「念書」に関する判決は、「カルト」や家庭連合に対する偏見、そして国際法を無視する裁判所の姿勢を露呈した。






