China Criticizes U.S. List of Violators
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times
November 20, 2006
China assailed the United States on Monday for listing it as a country that violates religious freedoms. The State Department list released last week included China among Myanmar, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as places where people cannot practice their faiths freely.
''The United States' action violates the basic rules of international relations, and constitutes a rude intervention in the internal affairs of another country,'' Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
''We demand the United States respect the truth, and stop interfering in China's internal affairs under the pretext of religion,'' Jiang said in a statement posted on the ministry's Web site.
John V. Hanford III, U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, said China has seen ''a little progress'' but ''certainly has not made the sort of progress that we need to see in a systemic way to remove them'' from the list.
The State Department report said ''China maintains tight control over all religions and has cracked down hard on groups not sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party. Those who practice Falun Gong, a banned spiritual movement, or who attend underground Protestant or Catholic churches routinely face detention, harassment and sometimes imprisonment.''
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What bald-faced lies from the Chinese Foreign Ministry! Religion is tightly controlled by the Chinese Government - anyone living here knows that. There is, for example, only one permitted international Protestant Church in Shanghai - for 17 million people. Foreigners and Chinese citizens are not permitted to attend the same service at the church - they have separate services. What is said at the church is closely monitored and controlled.
the ccp is a "cancer" on the chinese nation and chinese people. the ccp is "enemy of the chinese nation". since 1949, it has subjected china to military-police state. what nation sends army-tanks to run-over un-armed civilians. the death of the ccp is near.
the True revolution of the 20th, 21st. century will be the "semiconductor revolution" the electronics revolution has given the world a billion computers and two billion cell phones.
fiber optics send truth at the speed of light around the globe. the final days of the ccp is here and now. truth will be known to the world.
Further to my earlier post - here in Shanghai sermons in the two Catholic Churches and one legal Protestant int'l church must be approved in advance. Anyone that goes to these approved churches here knows how dull these "approved" sermons are. The part-time ministers are not allowed to touch upon current affairs or to connect Biblical teachings to today's world. The same goes for the Buddhist temples here. Freedom of religion in China? No way.