Forty years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, schoolchildren in China are once again being mobilized for an anti-espionage drive reminiscent of the Mao era.

A draconian law adopted by the National People’s Congress is aimed at preventing Chinese citizens from challenging the Communist Party’s version of history.

Drew Christiansen, S.J., discusses the significance of religious peacebuilding in struggling countries.

One fruit of this Sino-Vatican agreement, which neither side has confirmed, will be that “from now on, there will be no more the crisis of a division between the open and underground communities in the church in China,” wrote Cardinal Tong.

Chinese officials say the country has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors, but the international medical community remains skeptical.

"Every time I think of my husband and imagine what torture would have made him into, my heart aches."