A Crucial International Religious Freedom Conference in Tokyo: The First Time in Japan

August 1, 2024 | Bitter Winter | By Marco Respinti

Aptly combining scholarship and activism, speakers included David Curry, President and CEO of Global Christian Relief; Peter Burns, Executive Director of the IRF Summit; Omer Kanat, President of Uyghur Human Rights Project; Ilham Mahmut, President of Japan Uyghur Association; Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Japan & East Asia; Zaw Min Htut of the Rohingya Community in Japan; Hannah Clayton Smith, Associate Director of the International Center of Law and Religion Studies; Ambassador Nathan Sales, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council; Father M. Christu Rajamony of the Archdiocese of Madras, India; Robert Řehák, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Interfaith Dialogue and Freedom of Religion or Belief; Rev. Yoshinobu Miyake, Chair of the Board of the International Shinto Studies Association; Benedict Rogers, CEO of Hong Kong Watch; Saho Matsumoto, Professor at Nihon University; Tim Peters, Founder of Helping Hands Korea; Thang Nguyen Dinh, Executive Director of Boat People SOS; and Bob Fu, President of ChinaAid. William Lai, President of the ROC, sent a video message.

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