Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit Photo: Bitter Winter

Hong Kong and the obsession with national security

In a place where 1,832 people are already in prison on political grounds, the new law implementing Article 23 only “cloak[s] injustice with a veil of institutional legitimacy,” wrote a few months ago Chow Hang-tung, jailed for remembering the dead in Tiananmen Square. The real answer is not to forget this China behind bars, in Hong Kong and in the People’s Republic.

USA: Young People’s Support for Gay Unions Drops

22% of young people in the United States between 18 and 29 years of age identify with the LGBTQ ideology as do 58% of residents in the United States, who consider themselves liberals or relate to the Democratic Party. It is relevant that the majority of Americans considered to be LGBTQ have no religious affiliation: 35% say they are Christians and 5% are non-Christian believers.