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End The Persecution of The Church of Almighty God Now!

02/24/2020Bitter Winter |

As representatives of NGOs, religious organizations, and citizens concerned about freedom of religion and belief and the dignity of every human being, we call the attention of the political authorities on the dramatic situation of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in China. The CAG is a Chinese Christian religious movement, credited by the Chinese authorities with four million members in China. Since its establishment in 1991, it has been systematically persecuted. Irrespective of its theology, we believe that the CAG, as any other religion, has the right to freely profess its faith.

According to a report released by the CAG on January 31, 2020 and available at the address https://centerna.kingdomsalvation.org/yearly-figures/en_US/annual-report-2019.pdf?n=0.1580527857, 6,132 CAG members have been arrested in China in 2019. 3,824 suffered various forms of torture or forced indoctrination, and 19 died as a result of the persecution. Overall, more than 30,000 CAG members were subject to various forms of persecution and harassment during the year 2019. Thousands were compelled to sign statements renouncing their faith, others had their personal assets confiscated or lost their jobs or their homes.

As it happens for many other religions, the persecution under Xi Jinping is getting worse every year. The report discloses horrific details about torture and extra-judicial killings in China, and harassment of CAG refugees in foreign countries by Chinese agents, including South Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

There are now more than 5,000 CAG refugees overseas. Happily, more requests for asylum have been granted in 2019 than in previous years. But in some countries CAG asylum applications are still rejected, due to pressure and fake news spread by Chinese agencies, and a local political climate hostile to refugees. CAG members who are compelled to return to China are immediately arrested and sentenced to heavy jail terms, or ‘disappear’ into the deep Chinese concentration camp system, never to reappear.

We call on all democratic countries to generously welcome CAG refugees, and to publicly denounce the persecution of CAG, and of all religions, in Xi Jinping’s China.

 

Bitter Winter, a daily magazine on human rights and religious freedom in China

CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions)

ORLIR (International Observatory of Religious Liberty of Refugees)

FOB – European Federation for Freedom of Belief

CAP-LC – Co-ordination of Associations and Persons for Freedom of Conscience

EIFRF – European Inter-religious Forum for Religious Freedom

FOREF – Forum for Religious Freedom Europe

LIREC – Center for Studies on Freedom of Belief, Religion and Conscience

HRWF – Human Rights Without Frontiers

Soteria International

Citizen Power Initiatives for China

China Alarm

Association for the Defense of Human Rights and Religious Freedom (ADHRRF)

Association Against Religious Persecution

All Faiths Network

Mission Life for the Nations

Gemeinsam für Menschenrechte Deutschland

Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, Regionalgruppe München

The Association Against Religious Persecution

Church of Scientology National Affairs Office, Washington DC

Coordinamento Interconfessionale “Noi siamo con voi”, Torino, Italia

United for Human Rights

FEDINSIEME (Comitato di promozione del dialogo interculturale ed interreligioso), Torino, Italia

Uyghur Human Rights Project

International Society for Human Rights, Frankfurt, Germany

Association for Chinese Human Rights and Religious Freedom

 

As individual friends of human rights:

Marco Respinti

Francesco Ravaglioli

Rebecca Moore

Pietro Masiello

Scott Morgan

Ho Ka Hin

Bachittar Singh Ughrha

José ElÍas Esteve Moltó

Giampiero Leo

Sheng Xue

Sergio Coscia

Francesca Evangelisti

Alessandra Montesanto

Johannes Steijnebrugh

Giuseppe Cicogna

Gabriella Banda

Please add your signature by writing to letter2020@bitterwinter.org.

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Bitter Winter reports on how religions are allowed, or not allowed, to operate in China and how some are severely persecuted after they are labeled as “xie jiao,” or heterodox teachings. We publish news difficult to find elsewhere, analyses, and debates.
Placed under the editorship of Massimo Introvigne, one of the most well-known scholars of religion internationally, “Bitter Winter” is a cooperative enterprise by scholars, human rights activists, and members of religious organizations persecuted in China (some of them have elected, for obvious reasons, to remain anonymous).

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