Note: You are reading this message either because you did not load our stylesheets, or you are not using a standards-compliant browser. Please consider using one of these browsers to view this web site: Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, or Safari (Mac).
China Updates

MASSIVE, COORDINATED CRACKDOWN ON HOUSE CHURCHES CHRISTIANS IN CHINA’S JILIN PROVINCE

Posted Jun 09 2005


 
NEWS RELEASE
China Aid Association
(267)205-5210
(432) 689-6985
Fax: (432) 522-1329
www.ChinaAid.org

Contact: Bob Fu (267) 205-5210

CAA(Midland, Texas)-June 9, 2005
MASSIVE, COORDINATED CRACKDOWN ON HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS IN CHINA’S JILIN PROVINCE
 At 5am, Sunday, May 22, while house church leader, Zhao Dianru, 58, was praying at his home, a dozen Chinese police and PSB officers raided and searched his house without search warrant papers. He was taken away and detained at Jiutai City Detention center of Jilin Province until June 6 when he was released. Meanwhile, according to China Aid investigators, police and Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers simultaneously raided about 100 house churches in Changchun area, the capital city of Jilin Province in northeastern China. Almost 600 house church believers and leaders were taken into custody. Most were released after 24 to 48 hours of interrogation, but about 100 of the leaders including professors from Changchun University are still held in different detention centers.
According to reliable contacts, Zhao’s arrest document accused him of “using other means to instigate and disturb social stability,” but did not mention religion or church activities. 20 boxes of Christian books were confiscated during the police raid. Zhao has been overseeing 18 house churches in his area and was asked to join the government sanctioned church three times recently but he declined.

Sources report that university students, professors and other young intellectuals make up a large portion of the raided house church groups. It’s believed this is a coordinated campaign to eliminate the house church influence in the university areas.
China’s new law on religion, the Provisions on Religious Affairs, took effect March 1. Some had believed the new law would lead to less restriction on unregistered churches, but these large-scale raids and arrests seem to show otherwise.
The raided house churches are not all part of the same group, and are not affiliated with any of China’s major house church networks. They are independent house churches with thousands of believers who choose not to register their Christian activities with the Communist government.
“While the Chinese government has been proclaiming to the world community that Chinese people are enjoying religious freedom, this major assault on unregistered house churches in Jilin Province contradicts those claims,” said Bob Fu, CAA president. “The man-power, coordination and planning involved in raiding such a large number of church meetings simultaneously shows that this effort came from upper levels of the Chinese government”.
CAA calls upon the world community to urge the Chinese government to immediately release these innocent religious leaders. It’s time for China to live up to the commitments and treaties it has signed on religious freedom.
.CAA asks people of conscience to show your concerns and write/call to Chinese Embassy and Consulates in the US:

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington DC 20008
Tel:(202) 328-2500 Fax: (202) 588-0032
Director of Religious Affairs:
(202) 328-2512

Chinese Consulate General in Chicago, IL
Address: 100 West Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60610
Tel: (312) 803-0095
Fax: (312) 803-0110

Chinese Consulate General in Houston, TX
Address: 3417 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
Tel: (713) 524-0780
Fax: (713) 524-7656

Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, CA
Address: 443 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Tel: (213) 807-8018
Fax: (213) 380-1961

Chinese Consulate General in New York, NY
Address: 520 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 244 9392
Fax: (212) 502 0258

Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, CA
Address: 1450 Laguna St. San Francisco, CA 94115
Tel: (415) 674-2940
Fax: (415) 563-4861


Issued by China Aid Association, Inc. on June 9, 2005.

2 Responses to “MASSIVE, COORDINATED CRACKDOWN ON HOUSE CHURCHES CHRISTIANS IN CHINA’S JILIN PROVINCE”

  1. asdf Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    The only propaganda here is religious propaganda. Religion being merely an institution of lies, myths and superstition. Why do we tolerate religion? We shouldn’t. However religion has always been used to usurp nations, indigenious people from their rightful lands by supplanting their true racial identities with false ones, and geopolitical polarization. From Chinese (which is what they truly are) they are falsely led to believe that they are Christian Chinese and should support Western post-colonial agendas. From Chinese, they may become Muslim Chinese in support of Iran and Emirates sinister plans to dominate all of Asia turning each country into a muslim fanatical nation.

    This site is small fry compared to government (UK, US) sponsored propaganda sites like BBC and Epoch Times. The point of conflict is you guessed it. Religion. Their excuse, to assert the rights of foreign nationalities bent on usurping any nation (namely China) or one of its territories, and to deny the rightful heirs to the nation namely the Chinese people themselves proper (without the religious affix or should that be afflictions).

    The very basis of all religion has always been unproven myth, lies and metaphysical nonsense. Am I to take the words of these people on any current news event as the truth?
    From allegations of torture or imprisonment for demanding (yes DEMANDING) special rights and privileges not as an individual but as a body that originates outside that country in question. No I choose to believe that these people are filthy liars always with an ulterior sinister motive. Buddhism itself is also a foreign element not from China. Its origins lie in India. Islam (Uighur) originates from Iran, Mecca and all the Emirate countries that have been taken by such a deceitful ploy (the most recent success of these vermin can be seen in the declaration of indepence of Kosovo).

    “There is only true freedom. Freedom FROM religion.” Do not let these scum twist these words otherwise. Freedom from being influenced by these power hungry scum. Freedom from its dominion. Freedom from being misled by lies, myths, and con-man chicanery that is commonplace among their ilk. Often quoting from their garbage religious text (Which hold non-sensical generic nonsense, falsified events with real places to obtain credibility…etc. Shameless.) and of all things they purport to understand. Why then do we have science if these religious figures have all the answers?

    Their second tactic involves labelling an “evil”. Communism is evil. No it is not. It is an inefficient means to govern a nation, but so is a Democracy. They will then associate all things extremist to that system of government namely nationalism. Oh, but it’s okay if the Democratic nations do it under the synonymous word “pariotism”. And when they attack another country under the guise of liberating that country, what they are really doing is the old time practice of conquering yet another nation in order to fuel their plans for economic expansion, i.e., “making allies” against some “evil”.

    They control the media, and are an active participant in the dissemination of lies to further influence your neutral assumptions of things. They would like to control what you see, hear, or have an opinion on or against (or purport to since they would like you to view it from their point of view). I’m not talking about China FYI, although they do it as well, but this has only been reactive to the pro-aggresive actions taken by those violent against China and its sovereign right to rule its own country with NO obesiance to jewish-christian-catholic, islamic, buddhist charlatans. China for Chinese instead of China for Christians, Muslims, Buddhist (falungong ding dongs / nepal-mongoloid halfbreed tibetans as a race? lol). A nation with less liars. I can see no wrong in their motives.

  2. Stu Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    I sort of agree. My attitude towards the current crackdown on the muslims is….yes….crush them, kill them…..where ever your find them, besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush…..until there remains…..not even one. And thats what I think every non-muslim country should do…….but….Islam always….and I mean always wants to replace any countries laws with it’s own repressive, dicriminative doctrine of hate, persecution, sexism, racism, and extremism. So I say to hell with them.

    Yes all religions are based on total, unadulturated, complete and utter bullshit. But at least Christians aren’t trying to impose their own laws on others and demand their own state. If I were the Chinese I would just leave them alone and devote all my resources to the mass extermination and genocide of the muslims……maybe worry about the Christians later lol

Leave a Reply