CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao, (866) FRC-NEWS or (866)-372-6397
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Wednesday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Bob Fu, FRC's Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom and President of ChinaAid, will participate in an interfaith roundtable event on Capitol Hill. The event is hosted by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Fu will also be joined by Pastor Pan Yongguang who leads the Mayflower Church of China. Pan, along with his congregation fled China and were granted asylum by the U.S. earlier this year due to Fu's efforts. The discussion will center on the experiences religious Chinese people have faced under the Chinese Communist Party's government.
WHAT: The CCP's Threat to Religious Freedom: An Interfaith Discussion
WHO: Tony Perkins - President, Family Research Council | Former Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Bob Fu - Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom, Family Research Council | Founder & President of ChinaAid
Sam Brownback - Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom | Former Governor of Kansas | Former US Senator representing Kansas
Rabbi Abraham Cooper - Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom | Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center
David Curry -- Commissioner, US Commission on International Religious Freedom | President and CEO of Global Christian Relief
Imam Mohamad Magid - Commissioner, US Commission on International Religious Freedom | Executive Religious Director of All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center | Chairman of International Interfaith Peace Corps
Rev. Frederick Davie - Vice Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom | Strategic Advisor to the President at Union Theological Seminary (NYC)
Pastor Pan Yongguang -- Mayflower Church of China | Granted asylum by the US in April 2023
Pastor Bob Roberts -- Founding Global Pastor, Northwood Church (Dallas, TX)
Imam Hajim - Uyghur Imam living in the United States
Bhuchung Tsering - International Campaign for Tibet
Pastor Corey Jackson -- Pastor, Trinity Park Church (Cary, NC) | Strategic Advisor, The China Partnership
Father Kurt Klismet -- President, Trinitarian International Solidarity (S.I.T) - USA, Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives in the Roman Catholic Church
WHEN: TOMORROW/Wednesday July 12 at Noon Eastern
WHERE: H-144 U.S. Capitol Building
PLEASE NOTE: RSVP is required by 9:00a.m. Eastern on Wednesday July 12th with allison.aprahamian@mail.house.gov
To read more, please see:
- The Federalist: American Dollars Should Have No Part In China's Forced Sterilizations
- National Interest: China Aids and Abets North Korea's Abuse of Christians
- Newsweek: Don't Mistake China's Three-Child Policy For Liberalization
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