“It’s time to let her go for the sake of faith.”
I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with Mother. Please keep her in your prayers.
https://t.co/DWZ1LyOmWr
#FaithFreedomPeace#LetHerGo#ReleaseTheMotherofPeace
@DemianDunkley@mihoko_ueki What an incredible rendition of such a beautiful song of devotion!!! From her “I’m so nervous” to “I love you all” I was deeply moved ❤️❤️❤️
ShinYuh Moon melts hearts with a soul stirring performance of Be Thou My Vision.
Listen to her words, her heart, and feel for yourself the vibration of God flowing through her at the 50th Anniversary of the Washington Monument "God's Hope is America" event in Washington DC. September 19, 2026.
#GodsDreamOneFamily #FaithFreedomPeace #InternationalDayOfPeace
Isolation Is Part of the Sentence She Was Not Only Given in Court.
Ambassador Evans has described what detention has meant for Dr. Hak Ja Han beyond the verdict.
In his account she does not hear believers pray her name, does not receive an ordinary visit’s warmth, and meets a cold floor, a hospital trip for injuries, and a daily prosecutor’s portrait of her as a bad person.
What remains, he said, is the claim that God is with her.
A Seoul court has already convicted her on political-fund and related counts; the state wanted a heavier term.
Prison is supposed to hold a defendant, not invent a second trial in the cell.
Evans is asking the public to look at conditions and contact rules—whether a faith leader is cut off from her community as punishment extra to the statute.
That is not a finding of innocence. It is a demand that custody stay lawful even when the defendant is despised.
If prayer and a visit are treated as contraband, is the state still executing a sentence—or managing a church by other means?
@samuelhking@bioe_stanford I am truly grateful that my son, Samuel, has enjoyed such amazing opportunities and coupled with his hard work have brought such a recognition.
I am honored to have been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 this year.
🔗https://t.co/MozvXnIGiP
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This recognition is shared with the many amazing people I get to work with everyday as a @bioe_stanford PhD student and at @arcinstitute. Doing research alongside my brilliant labmates and advisor @BrianHie has been the best part of my PhD, and the science is truly a product of that.
My research has been driven by the insight that biology operates on design principles that can be leveraged to transform medicine, sustainability, materials, and beyond, and that computational modeling, including AI, will help us decipher those design principles at scale. Nature's innovations are written in genomes, and we have a long way to go in understanding them. You can read more about some of our efforts developing AI to understand and design genomes in my comment below.
Thank you to everyone at the @techreview and all the judges for organizing this, especially @AmyNordrum and @antonioregalado, for your support. I can't wait to see all the incredible things the other Innovators do!
An important study by a Uyghur journalist on how Xinjiang experiments of children indoctrination were exported nationally in China https://t.co/aYmIGFmQaX
Statement from 70th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Sentencing of Dr. Hak Ja Han
"The sentencing of religious leader Dr. Hak Ja Han to two years in prison is deeply troubling for anyone who cares about religious liberty and free expression. The evidence suggests that Dr. Han was targeted for her religious and political beliefs.
Dr. Han has never been charged with so much as a parking ticket in her life, yet has already been detained for nearly a year in terrible conditions despite her advanced age and health problems.
This is a betrayal of South Korea’s hard-won democratic values. I pray that the government of South Korea reconsiders this case on appeal and does not go further down the path of religious persecution."
@mikepompeo
https://t.co/Po1IO7alLE
Statement from Pastor Dr. Mark Burns on the Sentencing of 83 year old religious leader, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
I am deeply disturbed by the sentencing of Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon by the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea.
As a pastor, an international advocate for religious freedom, and Founder and Chairman of Spiritual Diplomats, I believe this case raises serious concerns about the treatment of religious leaders and religious institutions in South Korea.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon is an internationally recognized religious leader whose ministry and work have reached millions of people around the world. Whatever political disagreements may exist, governments must be extremely careful that criminal law is never used in a way that becomes a weapon against religious leadership, religious organizations, or people of faith.
The freedom to worship, to organize, to speak, and to participate in the public life of a nation without fear of government persecution is a fundamental human right.
When an 83-year-old religious leader is sentenced to prison under circumstances that her church strongly disputes and intends to appeal, the international religious freedom community has a responsibility to pay attention.
I am calling upon the government and judicial authorities of the Republic of Korea to ensure that Dr. Han receives full due process, a fair and transparent appeals process, and treatment that respects both her human dignity and her religious freedom.
I also call upon religious leaders around the world, including Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and people of every faith tradition, to stand together whenever religious liberty is threatened.
Religious freedom cannot depend upon whether we agree with another person's theology.
You do not have to share someone's beliefs to defend their right to believe them.
Spiritual Diplomats stands against religious persecution anywhere in the world. We will continue to speak for people of faith whose fundamental freedoms are threatened, regardless of denomination, religion, nationality, or political affiliation.
South Korea is an important democracy and a valued friend of the United States. Precisely because of that friendship, we must be willing to speak openly when actions raise serious questions about religious liberty and fundamental human rights.
I stand with Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon in calling for justice, due process, religious freedom, and the protection of her fundamental human rights.
Pastor Dr. Mark Burns
Founder & Chairman
@SpiritDiplomats
https://t.co/wAjG3nMDhh
Spiritual Advisor to President Donald J. Trump
South Korea named Yong Hye-in, leader of a tiny far-left party, as Gender Equality and Family Minister.
She co-sponsored:
1. Anti-discrimination Act — a comprehensive bill covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
In practice, that is the law churches fighting: preaching, hiring, and Christian schools can be treated as “hate.”
2. A domestic-partnership bill that gives cohabiting couples — including same-sex couples — marriage-like rights, tax benefits, and adoption. It does not amend the wedding vow. It replaces it.
3. A bill to scrap the military ban on same-sex acts between soldiers.
This is not “inclusion.”
It is a rewrite of marriage, sex, and the family, the three things Christian civilization actually built a country on.
She will also keep her National Assembly seat.
If she resigned, she (and her husband as VP of the party) would lose its only seat and about $800k a year in taxpayer subsidies.
In the U.S., a member of Congress cannot sit in the Cabinet.
In Seoul, she keeps both, and the check.
That is the appointment.
In a matter of hours, Dr. Hak Ja Han is expected to learn her fate in a South Korean courtroom. Prosecutors have asked for a 13-year prison sentence for the 83-year-old religious leader, who has denied the allegations against her.
I asked Dr. Demian Dunkley to join me on Newt’s World because people need to understand who Dr. Han is, what has happened to her, and why I believe this case is about far more than one woman or one church.
I believe there is a global war on God taking place in plain sight, and Dr. Han has found herself in the middle of it. Before the court rules, I hope you will listen to this important conversation. https://t.co/OSlEhZPQGJ
Ambassador Randy Evans joins me for an urgent conversation about what’s happening in South Korea — and why he believes people of faith everywhere should be paying attention.
#ReligiousFreedom#SouthKorea#FaithFreedomPeace
https://t.co/VNJD3OotWH
Today, South Korea’s Defense Minister Ahn Kyu-baek just claimed Trump is lying about the “No thanks.”
Trump said he asked Seoul to help with Iran and got a flat “No thanks.” Ahn’s response today: “Not consistent with the facts.”
This is the same Defense Minister who told Air Force Academy cadets that a Mao Zedong quote is his personal motto.
Mao, yes. The man who approved the invasion of South Korea and whose forces killed tens of thousands of South Korean and American soldiers.
This is also the same man facing serious allegations of deserting the military twice during his own service.
A Defense Minister of a U.S. treaty ally who quotes Mao as his motto and has desertion allegations hanging over him… while his government says “no thanks” to America and then denies it.
This is the reality under the current South Korean government.
Ordinary Koreans are still overwhelmingly pro-American.
Those currently in power are not.
Watch the hearing (its in Korean btw..)
Okay. Some of you are freaking out about “scaling back joint military exercises with South Korea.”
Before anyone screams “abandoning Korea,” do some more (more) research.
The current progressive government in Seoul has made reclaiming wartime operational control (OPCON) from the U.S. a top priority.
They want to command both Korean and American troops in wartime.
The U.S. has never handed that over. Would Washington really accept it?
Look at who’s running the ruling Democrat party:
• Newly elected leader Kim Min-seok was involved in the 1985 occupation of the U.S. Cultural Center.
• His predecessor Jung Chung-rae led the 1989 attack on the U.S. ambassador’s residence with homemade bombs.
This is the same camp that still leans toward China, where Chinese now can enter Korean without visa, they can freely buy land and companies in Korea, while Koreans can’t do the same in China.
Criticizing this government is not anti-Korea.
It’s pro-alliance.
Most Koreans value the U.S. relationship.
The problem isn’t the alliance.
It’s the people currently in charge of it.