This is obviously a major global fight. However, it will remain low profile because the real fight for control is well underway, but must take time. The abcess of fascist thinking and control must be incised and that will not go quietly.
Alternatively we can promote the rule of twelve through the religious leaders and at least build out the foundations through local communities.
This problem directly affects all of the human population and it is not easily fixed from the top down..
Religious Persecution a Global Crisis Needing Urgent Action, US Ambassador Says
Sam
Brownback, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious
Freedom, at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the
Department of State in Washington on July 16, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The
Epoch Times)
Religious Persecution a Global Crisis Needing Urgent Action, US Ambassador Says
July 16, 2019
Updated: July 17, 2019
WASHINGTON—The suppression of people of faith is a
global crisis that receives far too little attention, U.S.
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback
said on July 16.
Brownback said the Trump administration was committed to countering religious persecution
worldwide, in remarks on the opening day of the second
annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom hosted by the U.S. State
Department in Washington.
“This administration sees the killing, imprisonments, harassment, and
persecution on the basis of religious beliefs around the world,”
Brownback said. “And we see it as a global crisis that has received far
too little attention—a global crisis that we are determined to reverse.”
While most people in the world profess a faith, 80 percent of people live in a place that restricts religion, Brownback said.
“It is past time to bring down these religious restrictions,” he said.
The three-day conference marks the largest religious freedom
event in the world, according to the State Department, and brings
together more than 1,000 civil society and religious leaders from dozens
of countries.
“We’ve got folks from civil society and from Christian, Muslim,
Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Falun Gong, and other secular
backgrounds,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in opening remarks.
“I want to thank everyone here who has committed a part of their life
to helping those who are persecuted and to defending the unalienable
right to practice one’s religion and follow their conscience and to take
care of their soul.”
Pompeo also expressed hope that the conference would inform the work of the recently launched Commission of Unalienable Rights, a
committee of experts, activists, and lawmakers tasked to provide the
secretary with advice on how to interpret human rights based on the
nation’s founding principles and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
Spotlight on China
While more than 100 foreign delegations were invited to the
gathering, egregious violators of religious liberty like China, Iran,
and Pakistan were not.
China has, for the past two decades, been designated by the State
Department as a “country of particular concern,” meaning that it engages
in ”systematic, ongoing, [and] egregious violations of religious
freedom.”
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaking in a panel
discussion at the conference, said that given China’s economic clout,
the huge scale of the violations of religious liberty in the country is a
“challenge to the conscience of the world.”
“Unless we’re willing to speak out against human rights and
violations of religious freedom in China, we lose all moral authority to
talk about it any other place in the world,” Pelosi said.
Pompeo, speaking at the release of the department’s annual report on global religious freedom in June, called out the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its “extreme hostility to all religious faiths since its founding.”
“The party demands that it alone be called God,” he said at the time.
“In China, the government’s intense persecution of many faiths—Falun
Gong practitioners, Christians, and Tibetan Buddhists among them—is the
norm.”
Former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, who has been a longtime advocate for
worldwide religious freedom, said at the conference that the abuses in
China is the worst in 30 years.
Among the regime’s transgressions are its co-option of the Catholic
church, the mass detention of more than 1 million Uyghurs and other
Muslim minorities in the region of Xinjiang in internment camps, and the
“cultural genocide” of Tibetan Buddhists, Wolf said.
Wolf also referred to the regime’s forcible harvesting of organs from adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong who are incarcerated for their beliefs.
“It’s worse now than any time that I’ve been dealing with these issues,” Wolf said.
The situation has deteriorated because the United States—and
particularly the business community—has not spoken out enough like it
had previously done against the Soviet Union during the 1970s and
1980s, Wolf said.
Pelosi said that after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, she and
other lawmakers advocated for China to be stripped of preferential
trading status with the United States. But she received significant
pushback from the business community, which argued that economic
openness would lead to greater liberties.
Thirty years later, this has not eventuated, Pelosi said. Meanwhile,
the United States’ trade deficit with China has increased from $5
billion a year to $5 billion a week, she added.
“What they [commercial interest groups] were suggesting didn’t work, but they take no responsibility for it,” Pelosi said.
Wolf said foreign companies that work with the Chinese regime to
develop technologies used in its repression of faith groups, such as
mass surveillance technology and artificial intelligence, should be held
to account.
“No company in the West ought to be cooperating with the Chinese to do this,” he said. “I think they ought to be sued.”
People should bring lawsuits against such companies, and damages
should be then awarded to victim groups, such as Uyghurs, Tibetans, and
Falun Gong practitioners, Wolf said.
Pelosi supported the proposal, saying companies need to be called out for aiding human rights abuses.
“We have to shine a bright light and say, ‘You are accomplices for
very evil actions.’ Do you want to be known for that?” she said.
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