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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Beijing's war on Christ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Posted: February 14, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com A handful of internal Chinese government documents, just published by a U.S. religious-rights organization, reveal that Beijing's zeal to crush "unauthorized" Christianity is far from waning. Working in tandem with sympathetic officials, Chinese Christians were able to smuggle the documents – which appear legitimate – out of the country, according to a Wednesday report by the Washington Post's Philip P. Pan. "I've never seen anything like it in such quantity," said Robin Munro, China specialist at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. "These documents are from all around the country, all consistent, all quite draconian, and all expressing implacable hostility toward these groups and determination to eradicate them." In China, any religious group which operates without Beijing's stamp of approval is verboten, and adherents are vigorously pursued and punished. Describing non-state-sanctioned religious groups as "hostile," Sun Jianxin, vice director of public security in Anhui province, warned in one of the documents that they "have hastened their infiltration through various methods, such as via foundations or academic delegations, and all kinds of media." And don't think he's worried just about Wednesday night prayer meetings. Sun sees something far worse: "Hostile Western powers headed by the U.S. have hastened to carry on their strategies of Westernizing, splitting and weakening our country." (If only evangelicals really had that kind of influence.) Even while Beijing and the Vatican discussed better relations concerning China's Catholics, who are obligated to follow the state and not Rome, Sun declared that his security forces "began to search, educate, convert, reconnoiter and control some key members of the underground Catholics." Indeed, as Ananova.com reports, Vatican news agency Fides has just released the identities of "33 bishops and priests either detained or being kept under strict police surveillance and forbidden to worship. It said about 20 more priests, whose names are not known, are also being detained." Documents also reveal an attempt to infiltrate "illegal" Protestant groups and squash the Falun Gong sect. As panda huggers wax eloquent about the mercy of Beijing, which did recently release a Hong Kong businessman jailed for smuggling Bibles, one can hardly escape the conclusion that China, on the eve of President Bush's visit, is only attempting to curry favor by such a move. Bush showed special concern for the Bible runner. But don't buy it – the release of one Bible smuggler will not counterbalance Beijing's overall goal. Said one security minister quoted in the smuggled papers, "We need to work more, talk less to smash the cult quietly." The current regime in China will not ease up until it has eradicated any form of independent Christian worship. All believers who have not bowed the knee to the Baal of Beijing will be punished. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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