{"id":389,"date":"2008-06-14T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/06\/14\/chinese-continue-cracking-down-on-christians\/"},"modified":"2008-06-14T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:57:43","slug":"chinese-continue-cracking-down-on-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/06\/14\/chinese-continue-cracking-down-on-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese continue cracking down on Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px\/15px Arial; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">A new report released on Sunday, exactly two months ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games, details the current Chinese Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crackdown on unregistered Christians, including the funding of a campaign to eradicate house churches throughout China.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>The report, entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153China: Persecution of Protestant Christians in the Approach to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, by Christian Solidarity Worldwide and China Aid Association, provides information on different tactics used by the government to restrict the religious freedom of Christians.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>CAA said that in May, two independent sources reported that the Chinese Central Government was providing funding to the Ministry of Public Security to escalate its campaign to eradicate house churches in China.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>China Aid also said it received reports of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153planned intensified persecution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, with greater control and prevention of large Christian gatherings ahead of the Games.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px\/15px Arial; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/au.christiantoday.com\/article\/report-china-funding-campaign-to-eliminate-house-churches\/3934.htm\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released on Sunday, exactly two months ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games, details the current Chinese Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crackdown on unregistered Christians, including the funding of a campaign to eradicate house churches throughout China.The report, entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153China: Persecution of Protestant Christians in the Approach to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, by Christian Solidarity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}