By Matt Rooney Published April 10, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith criticized House Democrats on Thursday after their attempt to advance an Iran war powers resolution by unanimous consent was blocked during a pro forma session of the U.S. House of Representatives. Smith, who presided over the April 9th U.S. House of Representatives session as speaker pro tempore, said the Democratic effort was procedurally flawed and urged lawmakers to instead focus on ongoing diplomatic developmen... Read more

By Madalaine Elhabbal Published April 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM ET A New Jersey congressman sharply criticized the Vatican for giving a platform to one of Beijing’s top transplant officials at a 2017 international conference on organ trafficking. During an April 9 event hosted by the Hudson Institute highlighting new evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, called out the Vatican for hosting China’s leading transplant official at the Summit on Organ Trafficking an... Read more

By Catherine Yang and Eva Fu Published April 7, 2026 at 9:49:22 PM EDT WASHINGTON—When Robert Moffit learned about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) forced organ harvesting industry through the recently published book "Killed to Order," he was reminded of the horrors of human experimentation in the Third Reich that came to light during the Nuremberg Trials. "Well, very frankly, like most human beings on this planet, I never thought that anything like this would be surfaced again. But when I ... Read more

By Yihua Lee Published April 3, 2026 Capitol Hill — As the leaders of the United States and China are expected to meet in mid-May, a Republican congressman in the U.S. Congress who has long been concerned about human rights issues said that U.S.-China relations should be based on truth and the defense of human rights. The veteran Republican also called on President Donald Trump to mention the case of Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai during the talks and asked for Jimmy Lai's medi... Read more

By Jerry Carino Published March 18, 2026 at 5:15 AM ET Leo Perlmutter was a corporal in the U.S. Marines, fighting in the bloody Tet Offensive in 1968, when a mortar round exploded near his head. “I didn’t even know I had gotten hit,” he said. A Navy corpsman — a medical specialist — noticed his forehead was bleeding. “I said, ‘Eh, it’s just a pimple,” Perlmutter recalled. “He said, ‘That ain’t no pimple. You got some metal in your head.’” Leo Perlmutter during his service in Vietnam. Provided B... Read more

By Nick Mordowanec Published March 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT Dr. Gulshan Abbas, 63, a retired physician and ethnic Uyghur, was disappeared by Chinese authorities in September 2018 in China’s western region of Xinjiang, after her sister, Rushan Abbas, publicly spoke out against the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of Uyghurs. Gulshan’s family was unaware of her whereabouts until December 2020, when it was learned that a secret trial had taken place in March 2019 declaring Gulshan guilty for “ta... Read more

By Roger A. Agana Published March 11, 2026 A senior United States congressman has called on Washington to deploy every diplomatic and economic tool available after a landmark federal commission flagged 18 countries as the world’s most severe violators of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2026 Annual Report on March 4, documenting violations throughout 2025 and setting out policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State... Read more

By News Ghana Published March 5, 2026 A bipartisan congressional commission held a hearing in Washington on Thursday calling on the Trump administration to use its 2026 Group of Twenty (G20) presidency to champion religious freedom and free speech, with particular focus on the mass killing of Christians in Nigeria and the growing threat of state-sponsored censorship globally. The hearing, convened by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, explored how the Trump administration can elevate human ... Read more

By Kate Scanlon Published March 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. presidency of the Group of 20, a forum for cooperation among the world’s largest economies, is an opportunity to advance human rights, advocates said at a congressional hearing March 5. The U.S. assumed the rotating presidency of the forum, sometimes called the G20, in December. The 2026 summit is scheduled to be held in Miami in December. Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J. and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., both Catholics and co... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), and Claire Lai, daughter of Jimmy Lai, sat down with host Raymond Arroyo on EWTN's The World Over with Raymond Arroyo to discuss the latest on Jimmy Lai's incarceration in Hong Kong, and the hope that diplomatic pressure will continue to be applied by the US and UK governments to eventually secure Jimmy's release from prison in Hong Kong. The full interview can be viewed by clicking here. ### Read more