Jimmy Lai

Disappearing, Torture, Detention: How the CCP Is Forcing Catholics to Join the State-Run Church

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The Chinese Community Party has tightened ideological control, surveillance and travel restrictions on China’s 12 million Catholics, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch, as authorities wage a pressure campaign to get underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church. Chinese authorities have pressured underground Catholic communities to join the government-run Chinese … Read more

Hong Kong Convicts Jimmy Lai

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A Hong Kong court this week convicted Jimmy Lai, the territory’s most prominent champion of democracy and basic human rights, of breaching national security. The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny. Hong Kong was long one of the freest places on earth, and Jimmy Lai, age 78, both symbolizes and … Read more

Hong Kong Catholics Deserve the Church’s Leadership, Not Silence

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COMMENTARY: Reconciliation must never sacrifice the timeless truths of the Church, but sadly that appears to be the case in China. Cardinal Stephen Chow, the bishop of Hong Kong, defended the state of religious freedom in Hong Kong in a public dialogue in Parramatta, Australia, on Sept. 15. If what he said were true — … Read more

The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom [Full Film]

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A Glorious, and Shackled, ‘Troublemaker’

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Jimmy Lai has lived a great life: as an entrepreneur, as a media magnate, as a freedom-and-democracy advocate. His friends and admirers want him to have a decent ending. He has been a political prisoner in Hong Kong for almost four years. Most of that time, he has been in solitary confinement. I wrote about … Read more

As Jimmy Lai Attracts Worldwide Support, Vatican Continues Policy of Silence

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Coming to Lai’s defense have been more than 100 politicians from 24 countries. Political leaders, a United Nations body, and human rights groups have publicly spoken out in defense of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong media mogul who faces possible life imprisonment for his involvement in pro-democracy protests, while the Vatican and senior Church … Read more

Know the Name of Jimmy Lai

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If you don’t know about Jimmy Lai, you need to. He is one of the heroes of our time. His name should be known the same way we know the names Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We know of John Paul II not just because he was pope. He knew that the … Read more