Pompeo: ‘The CCP Demands It Alone Be Called God’

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called out the Chinese Communist Party over its persecution of people in faith. Pompeo highlighted the communist regime’s treatment of Chinese people who adhere to a spiritual path during the June 21 release of the 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. “In China, the government’s intense persecution ...

Jack Roberts

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

China Using Smartphone App to Keep Track of Xinjiang Minorities

China is known for subjecting the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities of Xinjiang to brutal surveillance that puts them under constant watch as if they were a bunch of terrorists. Human Rights Watch has analyzed a government app, the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), and found how police authorities are using it to monitor people in ...

Max Lu

Smartphone app to track Uyghurs.

The Inspiration of a Top Hairstylist

Gabriel Georgiou, a Greek-born Australian, is well-known in the entertainment industry. This celebrity hairstylist, famous among Hollywood and Bollywood stars alike, has worked with the likes of Jessica Alba and Robert Downey, Jr. He is blessed with creativity. The celebrity’s hair is his canvas, and scissors, hairspray, and hair dryers can work magic in his ...

Helen London

Gabriel Georgiou.

The Chinese Communist Crackdown on Christmas

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a violent history as far as its attitude toward religious believers is concerned. When it comes to Christianity, Beijing sees it as a “foreign threat” to the country so much so that it has even banned Christmas celebrations in some regions of China in its crackdown on Christmas. The ...

Nspirement Staff

Chinese Village Is Fighting to Reclaim a Stolen Buddhist Statue

Villagers from Yangchun in China have pleaded to a Dutch Court for ownership of a 1000-year-old stolen Buddhist statue that it says is from their village. The idol is reportedly under the ownership of a Dutch collector, Oscar van Overeem. The sacred stolen Buddhist statue   “We grew up with the statue. He was there ...

Armin Auctor

Why Are Chinese First in Line for U.S. Political Asylum

Chinese have been the largest political asylum seekers in the United States for many years. In 2016, Chinese born people received 22 percent of all the asylum grants offered by the U.S. And this raises an interesting question — why are the Chinese No. 1 in applying for political asylum in the United States? Reasons ...

Nspirement Staff

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Confucius, the Greatest Sage and Teacher in Chinese History

During the last several hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty (周朝), people’s selfish desires increased along with the development of society. The ancient great virtues and the virtuous rule of emperors in the Xia Dynasty (夏朝), Shang Dynasty (商朝), and early Zhou Dynasty were replaced by individuals seeking personal interest. As a result, relationships among ...

Armin Auctor

Music Therapy

Music therapy has developed into a modern science, but it was first developed in China. The Chinese have searched for the secrets of the universe’s melody and rhythm for millennia. Music therapy is part of Chinese medicine, and the two have an interwoven, continuous relationship. Music, the theory of yin and yang, and the five ...

Nspirement Staff

‘In This Country, We Can Only Hibernate’: The Story of Li Bifeng

Li Bifeng, Chinese author, poet, and activist, has been working toward democracy in China for decades, where free speech is not tolerated. He wrote a report in 1998 about a courageous sit-in of a group of textile workers on a Chinese highway. This report on the workers’ protest, along with his involvement in the Tiananmen ...

Jessica Kneipp

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