12
May 2026
Past Event
China’s Persecution: Assault on All Faiths

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

China’s Persecution: Assault on All Faiths

Past Event
Hudson Institute
May 12, 2026
This picture taken on July 19, 2023 shows a view of a watchtower of an alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been swept into internment camps where human rights abuses are commonplace, researchers, campaigners and members of the diaspora say. Beijing says the facilities were voluntary centres for teaching vocational skills, closed years ago after their inhabitants "graduated" into stab
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A watchtower of an alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Getty Images)
12
May 2026
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
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Sam Brownback

Former US Ambassador at Large, Religious Freedom and Author, China’s War on Faith

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Hon. Frank Wolf

Former Member of Congress (R–VA) and Distinguished Fellow, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative

Grace Jin Drexel
Grace Jin Drexel

Daughter of Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri

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Peter Xu

Founder, Born Again Movement

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Pastor Pan Yongguang

Pastor, Mayflower Church in China

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Pastor Corey Jackson

Founder and President, Luke Alliance

CW
Wang Chunyan

Falun Gong practitioner

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Mihrigul Tursun

Former Uyghur detainee from Xinjiang, China

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Frances Hui

Policy and Advocacy Manager, CFHK Foundation

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Enes Freedom

Turkish/American human rights activist

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Arjia Rinpoche

Director, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center

Moderators:
Nina Shea
Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

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Michael Arkush

Co-writer, China’s War on Faith

China is waging genocide against the Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims. It subjugates Falun Gong practitioners and Tibetan Buddhists and continues its decades-long campaign to suppress and control Christians, turning their churches into state propaganda organs under the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. The CCP views religion as the last and greatest impediment to its total domination of Chinese cultural and civic life.

To address these concerns, former senator Sam Brownback, who served as ambassador at large for international religious freedom in the first Trump administration, will join Senior Fellow Nina Shea to propose new policies for the US government and actions for the American public. He will draw from his book, China’s War on Faith, which is scheduled for release on May 12.

Brownback and Shea will interview several survivors of CCP religious oppression, each of whom are profiled in the book, including a Buddhist high lama who was forced to flee Tibet and a Uyghur mother whose newborn son was killed by the CCP.  Former congressman Frank Wolf, who introduced the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, will also present. The legislation was key to institutionalizing religious freedom as a pillar of US foreign policy. 

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