Posted on Aug 11, 2008 | by Staff
WASHINGTON (BP)–President Bush attended the worship service of a church registered with China’s communist regime Aug. 10 and afterward promoted freedom of religion in a brief public statement.
The president’s visit to the Beijing church, however, came only days after Chinese officials detained the head of the country’s House […]
By Sonya BryskineEpoch Times Staff Aug 11, 2008
A group of Chinese Christians being turned away by police near the Kuanjie Protestant church in Beijing on 10 August 2008, prior to the arrival of US President George W. Bush. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
President George Bush’s symbolic visit to a Chinese Church on Sunday was […]
By Michael Abramowitz and Edward Cody
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 10, 2008; A12
BEIJING, Aug. 10 — President Bush is stepping up his public criticism of China’s human rights practices, adopting a more confrontational posture than he suggested he might take in the weeks leading up to the Olympic Games.
Bush said after a Sunday morning service […]
By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 10, 2008; A01
BEIJING — China describes itself as a religiously tolerant society, one that allows its citizens to worship freely. This week, per Olympic tradition, it is extending that same freedom to athletes in the form of worship rooms in the Olympic Village, each dedicated for the world’s […]
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Page last updated at 10:59 GMT, Monday, 4 August 2008 11:59 UKBy Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing
China has for months been warning that Xinjiang terrorists were planning attacks during the Olympics - fears that now appear well-founded. One official said recently that China had cracked five […]
Prices rose by 10% in July, the largest increase since 1996. Serious repercussions on consumption feared. Meanwhile, many companies, especially those run by the state, are producing with slim profits or at a loss. Faith in the stock market is diminishing, and asset prices are falling rapidly. Experts: the Olympics have slowed the economy.Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) […]
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By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer
Security agents detained a Christian activist Sunday who was on his way to a church service attended by President Bush and the man was being held at an undisclosed location, a relative said.
Hua Huiqi, a member of Beijing’s underground Christian church, and his brother were bicycling around dawn when they […]
By Sarah MathesonEpoch Times Staff
Authorities in Beijing have been instructed to keep foreign media away from petitioners, according to a document issued by the Chinese Communist Party.A petitioner in Beijing found the instructions, issued on August 6 by the Central Office of Joint conference of the Communist Party, and then passed them to media.The memo […]
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