Episode 989: China's War on Faith A Conversation with Ambassador Sam Brownback
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Newt talks with Ambassador Sam Brownback about his new book, “China’s War on Faith.” Brownback, who previously served as a United States Senator, the 46th governor of Kansas and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, has decades of experience on the frontlines fighting for religious liberty around the world. Brownback argues the Chinese Communist Party sees religious freedom as an existential threat and has engaged in a ruthless campaign to suppress people of faith, including forced organ harvesting on the Falun Gong. He believes the party's crackdown on religious groups like the Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims constitutes genocide. Brownback calls for the U.S. to elevate religious freedom as a strategic issue in confronting China's totalitarianism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to New World Podcasts on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.5 | Coming up, Ambassador Sam Brownback joins me to discuss his new book, China's War on Faith, |
| 0:19.8 | and why he believes the Chinese Communist Party is engaged |
| 0:23.5 | in a global war against religious freedom. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Ambassador Sam Brownback. |
| 0:38.7 | He has spent decades in public service and on the front lines in the fight for religious freedom around the world. |
| 0:44.4 | He represented his home state of Kansas in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, |
| 0:50.0 | where he was a key sponsor of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. |
| 0:55.6 | He later served as the 46th Governor of Kansas before being appointed by President Trump |
| 1:00.9 | as Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom, a post he held from 2018 to 2021. |
| 1:09.8 | Ambassador Brombeck served as co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, |
| 1:14.6 | chairman of the National Committee for Religious Freedom, and a member of the Board of Directors |
| 1:19.6 | of the National Endowment for Democracy. He's joining me to discuss his new book, China's War on Faith. |
| 1:27.4 | Sam, welcome, and thank you for joining me on Newts World. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, gosh, Newt's. Great to join you. I've been a part of Newt's World since 1994, |
| 1:36.6 | running for Congress. And you were a wonderful speaker and led the charge and brought us out |
| 1:42.5 | of the wilderness after over 40 years of being |
| 1:45.0 | a minority party in the House of Representatives. Just a pleasure to be a part of your world, |
| 1:50.6 | nude. Listen, it's a great thrill for me to have this chance to talk with you. You're such an |
| 1:55.8 | interesting guy and has such a journey on your own. Can we take just a minute and start kind of with your own story? |
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