Chrissy Stroop is a senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches, columnist for Open Democracy, co-editor of Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church and commentator on religion and politics, the U.S. Christian right, Russia and foreign policy. 

The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims and other religious groups.

The U.S. State Department will soon convene its second annual religious freedom ministerial.