(Midland, TX) China Aid Association released its 2021
Annual Report today, detailing persecution and key findings for the year.
ChinaAid works closely with sources in China
to expose abuses of human rights, religious freedom, and rule of law since
2002. While not an exhaustive list of cases, ChinaAid’s research represents one
of the most comprehensive and accurate overviews of persecution.
Throughout 2021, ChinaAid observed escalated oppression
of house churches through economic and violent means, as well as coordinated
efforts against Christian education.
Bob Fu, President and Founder of ChinaAid and
one of the world leaders for persecuted faith communities in China, commented
on the trends:
“Our
report further confirms that the CCP’s war against religious freedom and
independent faith communities intensified in 2021. The international community
should be concerned about the concentrated effort against children in China that restricts access to religious information and religious education, especially
Christian literature. This clearly violates both the children’s and parents’
rights as enshrined in various international legal norms for safeguarding
children’s religious freedom. These dramatic measures solidify the widespread
atheistic brainwashing within China’s state-controlled educational system.”
Despite the numerous cases studied, ChinaAid
discovered that many experiences of lived persecution were underreported to
overseas groups. This leads ChinaAid to conclude that 2021 might have been one
of the worst years for religious freedom in recent history.
Read the full report here.