US diplomat rips China’s religious crackdown

Published March 9, 2019 2:37am ET



China’s “war on faith” will fail, a top U.S. diplomat predicted while indicting the regime’s record on religious liberty during a trip to Hong Kong.

“It seems the Chinese government is at war with faith,” Sam Brownback, the State Department’s special envoy for religious liberty, said Friday. “It is a war they will not win.”

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