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For years, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been striving to make a difference in the world, and they’ve discovered that teaming up with the United Nations makes a world of difference.
The growing partnership allows this relatively small global faith of 16.5 million members to bring food, shelter and immunizations to countries across the planet.
All these seem laudable goals, but not all church members are happy about the U.N. ties. Indeed, to many of them, the global body is a communist front, or worse, a symbol of the biblical Antichrist.
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Why is Chinese leader Xi Jinping so afraid of Hong Kong and Jimmy Lai?
With the arrest of Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy leaders for Hong Kong, further shows Beijing s oppression and it s crushing the rule of law.
James B. Cunningham
Opinion Contributor
On April 16, 2021 a Hong Kong judge placed more nails in the coffin of freedom in Hong Kong. Nine pro-democracy leaders, including Martin Lee, Jimmy Lai, Albert Ho and Margaret Ng, were sentenced to prison for peacefully demonstrating in August 2019.
They had been participating in protests that had ballooned to unprecedented proportions over the Hong Kong government’s attempt to impose an “extradition law,” which would have enabled the transfer of Hong Kong citizens and foreign nationals to courts in mainland China.
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