China Pressured a US Catholic Group to Censor Its Keynote Speaker. They Complied.

August 31, 2026 World News

Andrew Hancock
Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and director of its Center on Religion and Chinese Society, is the author of ‘Religion in China: Survival and Revival Under Communist Rule.’

Emails obtained by the Register show that the US-China Catholic Association canceled a prominent professor’s keynote address after Chinese government officials requested his removal from the conference program.

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