ChinaAid released its annual report
that showed that Chinese government persecution of Christians and churches had
dramatically worsened in 2011. “This trend of worsening persecution has
persisted for the past six years,” the group said, adding that in 2011 the
number of Christians detained for their religious beliefs had soared 131.8%
from 2010.
The report also showed that the
Chinese Government has continued a practice from 2008 and 2009 in the “targeting
house church leaders and churches in urban areas” and 2010’s practice of “attacking
Christian human rights lawyers groups and using abuse, torture and mafia
tactics.”
The focus of persecution in 2011 was
on increasing the intensity of those attacks against Christians and house
churches with societal impact.
In December 2010, the Communist
Party Central Committee’s Public Security Commission issued a secret document
to target China’s house churches in the implementation of its special
suppression campaign “Operation Deterrence.”
The U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom in an April 20, 2011 statement said, “In a February 2011
speech, Wang Zu’on [sic – correct spelling is Zuo’an], head of
China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), called on government
officials to renew efforts to ‘guide’ unregistered Protestants to worship in
state-sanctioned churches and ‘break’ large churches like Shouwang into small groups.
He also outlined efforts to further deny Chinese Catholics the freedom to make
bishop appointments with the Vatican’s approval, require Muslims to pass
political tests to go on pilgrimages, and better manage Tibetan Buddhist
monasteries and unregistered shrines.”
Read more from ChinaAid’s report at: http://www.chinaaid.org/2012/02/chinaaid-releases-annual-report-of.html
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