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Disappearing Chinese Uighurs are likely victims of organ harvesting
Disappearing Chinese Uighurs are likely victims of organ harvesting

A recent report estimates 60,000 organ transplant surgeries happen in China every year, an industry adding $1 billion a year to the economy and cracking down on religious groups seen as a threat to the Communist Party.

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Asia, News, Politics, Primary Feature, Religion, Religion News, Science, EconomyAvinash GiriAvinash Giri, China, Uighur Muslims, Muslim Uighurs, organ harvesting, organ trafficking, Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhism, Communist Party, China Tribunal, Uighurs, Falun Gong, Amnesty, Human Harvest, Primary Feature, Secondary Feature, Chinese Uighurs, Islam
Religious persecution: Why not cover all groups feeling Beijing's wrath, not just Protestants?
Religious persecution: Why not cover all groups feeling Beijing's wrath, not just Protestants?

(COMMENTARY) China is also quashing the religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists, Muslims and Roman Catholics.

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Asia, Religion, OpinionIra RifkinMao Zedong, Tibet, Chinese Catholics, Chinese Muslims, President Donald Trump, Early Rain Covenant Church, The Guardian, Christian Post, Muslim Uighurs, Cultural Revolution, Wang Li, Chinese Christians, Ira Rifkin, Christianity, Religious Persecution, Buddhists, Muslims, Roman Catholics
Vatican-China agreement: As misguided as Rome's attempt to work with Nazi Germany?
Vatican-China agreement: As misguided as Rome's attempt to work with Nazi Germany?

(OPINION) How will the recent Vatican-Beijing development — ostensibly designed to unite the much persecuted, Vatican-loyal, underground Chinese Catholic church with the government recognized, and controlled, official Chinese Catholic church — survive should Vatican officials decide to criticize one or another Chinese human rights violation? Or does China believe that this agreement is just another Chinese attempt to control religious expression?

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Asia, Opinion, ReligionIra RifkinPrimary Feature, New York Times, National Review, Muslim Uighurs, National Catholic Reporter, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Religious Freedom, George Weigel, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, Ira Rifkin, Nazi Germany, Catholic bishops, Vatican-Beijing, Chinese Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Uighur Muslims, Vatican, Catholicism, Christianity