From 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (EST) on November 20, 2025, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China will hold a hearing at 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building on the subject of China’s War on Religion: The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why it Matters to the United States. According to a CECC release:
The Chinese Communist Party has intensified its drive for absolute control over religion, insisting that believers subordinate conscience and conviction to the Party and to General Secretary Xi Jinping…. The hearing will spotlight escalating repression targeting all of China’s diverse religious communities and examine why the CCP’s assault on freedom of religion matters for the United States.
The hearing will focus on CCP policies and tactics for coercive control of religion and their impact on individuals and communities; transnational repression used to censor and punish diaspora religious communities and individual believers abroad; the nexus between religious freedom and national security, and the strategic importance of religious freedom diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific; and policy recommendations for a robust U.S. response.
The hearing will be livestreamed via the CECC’s YouTube Channel.
The participants will include Sam Brownback, former Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, former governor of Kansas, former U.S. Senator; Ismail Juma, a human rights advocate; Bhuchung Tsering, with the International Campaign for Tibet; Bob Fu, founder of ChinaAid; and Grace Jin Drexel, daughter of Pastor Ezra Jin (shown above), who was arrested in China in October 2025 for leading a church.
