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.