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Sorry mate, but Wikipedia is still banned in China due to the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.


https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/china-blocks-access-to-all-language-editions-of-wikipedia.618255/
What is that got to do with the thread topics????

Most Chinese main-lander knows how to use a VPN to access. Anyway, copy below for those who don't have VPN.

China Aid
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China Aid, also written as China Aid Association or stylized as ChinaAid, is a non-governmental Christiannonprofit which focuses on raising awareness of human rights abuses, providing support and legal aid to Chinese prisoners of conscience and their families, and promoting the rule of law and religious freedom throughout China.[1]

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History[edit]
After fleeing to Hong Kong as an underground church pastor and a former student leader at Tiananmen Square, Bob Fu escaped to America with his wife,[2] and founded China Aid in 2002 from his new home in Philadelphia.[3] The organization's headquarters were relocated to Midland, Texas, in 2004. Fu believed Midland would be "much safer" after he found Chinese agents tailing him in Philadelphia.[1]

Since 2002, China Aid has been involved in initiatives and campaigns on behalf of human rights advocates and religious freedom groups in China, often leading appeals or campaigns to gain international support on behalf of Chinese nationals.[4] China Aid also maintains the ongoing China 18 initiative to raise awareness for Chinese prisoners of conscience. Each year, China Aid publishes an Annual Persecution report in both Chinese and English.[5]

According to Bob Fu, the China Aid Association aims to "spiritually and legally [equip]" Chinese people "to defend their faith and freedom",[1] with legal reforms ultimately "softening the soil for the Gospel" in China.[6] The organization's 2010 tax listing lists its purpose as raising funds to pay the legal funds of indicted Christians in China.[3] The foundation funds house churches in China which dissent from the official Protestant and Catholic churches of China. To this end, it publishes a house church magazine with a distribution of 80,000 in China.[1][6] It also provides money, training, and pen pal programs to Chinese religious leaders and their families.[3][7] As a matter of policy, it opposes forced abortions and compulsory sterilizations.[7]

In 2010, China Aid received $1.28 million in contributions and grants and $84,741 in other funds. Their staff consisted of 15 paid employees and 40 volunteers.[3] Two years later in 2012, China Aid had a budget of $1.5 million; offices in Midland, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles; and a full-time staff of "dozens" in China and more than six in America.[8] The organization runs an annual China Aid gala at the Midland Country Club, which raised $400,000 in 2012.[9] Most of the money comes from Midland oil and gas industry donors; in relative terms, China Aid does not receive much support from the Chinese American community.[3] The oil town was the childhood home of George W. Bush and houses many evangelical pressure groups that advocate on behalf of Christians in non-Christian countries like North Korea.[8] Many residents are on the board of China Aid.[9]

The human rights lawyer Li Baiguang died in February 2018.[10][11]

Organization and philosophy[edit]
China Aid keeps an in-house staff of five to ten at their Midland location,[12] connecting with a network of volunteers across China.[1] According to the ECFA, the organization reported total revenue of $1,426,028, with $1,411,410 coming from donations in 2013. Expenses that year were $1,493,194.[13]China Aid offers financial and legal support for house church pastors, political dissidents, and prisoners of conscience. Most of China Aid's donations come from oil and gas industry philanthropists. Other donations come from local churches or other Christian ministries.[3]

China Aid currently partners with various other ministries and human rights groups, such as National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, The Voice of the Martyrs, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Release International, and International Christian Concern.

According to the organization's website, China Aid's mission is threefold: to "expose, encourage, and equip."[14] The news and reporting side of China Aid's operations seek to "expose the abuses" and reveal persecution and human rights abuses to raise awareness of injustices perpetuated in China. Financial contributions and support for individuals and groups who have been targeted "encourages the abused." Finally, China Aid organizes training in leadership and rule of law for organizations in China to "equip the leaders."

Initiatives[edit]
China 18[edit]
The China 18 are a diverse group of prisoners of conscience supported by a China Aid-led coalition. The members of the group include human rights lawyers, Tibetans, Uyghurs, political activists, and underground church leaders. The China 18 campaign is intended to raise awareness for the situations of these individuals and their families, to represent thousands of others in similar situations, and to press for their release. The 18-person roster is updated to reflect new cases as members are freed or deceased.[15] As of September 2015, the 18 cases of the China 18 were Wang Bingzhang, Peng Ming, Liu Ping, Liu Xiaobo, Zhu Yufu, Liu Xianbin, Yang Tianshui, Yang Rongli, Guo Quan, Guo Feixiong, Tang Jingling, Li Chang, Alimujiang Yimiti, Gulmira Imin, Khenpo Karma Tsewang, Gao Yu, Zhang Shaojie.

Previous members of the China 18 who have been released are Lobsang Tsering, Chen Kegui, Wang Zhiwen, Gao Zhisheng, and Dhondup Wangchen. As of September 2015, only one previous member has died while still in prison, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.[16]

Free Gao[edit]
In 2009, China Aid headed a campaign to free former China 18 member Gao Zhisheng,[17] including a petition to the United States Senate, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the Chinese embassy which received over 50,000 signatures.[18] Gao was freed in August 2014, but was moved into house arrest and remains in poor health from his imprisonment.[19]

Advocacy Events[edit]
China Aid leads advocacy efforts to promote awareness and garner support for cases and issues, often partnering with other human rights or China-focused NGOs. Often these efforts include drawing up petitions, writing open letters to important government officials,[20] or hosting events.[21] Frequent partners include other ministries and human rights groups, such as, Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International,[22] Human Rights Watch, International Campaign for Tibet,[23] and Uyghur Human Rights Project.[24]

Chen Guangcheng[edit]
In 2012, China Aid was instrumental in gaining asylum in the US for dissident lawyer Chen Guangchengafter his research discovered 130,000 forced abortions in Shandong. The organization helped him flee house arrest and escape to the American Embassy in Beijing.[25] With additional help from China Aid, he was able to escape to New York on a student visa.[26] China Aid was often the first to release news and updates on Chen's condition and situation throughout his escape and relocation.[27]
 
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Oppressing Muslims was not enough it seems.

Now Christianity is damaging communist society. Why?

They oppose buying and selling wives?
They wont allow any religion, read their history you will understand why.
 
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Chinese officials warn Christianity is 'enormous harm' to society
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Communist Party members in a central Chinese province were told Christianity is harmful to their country during a recent seminar.

Religious experts see it as a sign the government is continuing its crackdown on Christianity and other religious minorities, with Christian persecution at historic highs around the world.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION CLOSE TO 'GENOCIDE LEVELS,' LARGELY IGNORED DUE TO 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS': REPORT

The Hebi Municipal Radio Administrative Bureau gave a presentation titled "Christianity’s Enormous Harm on China’s Security," to party members in the city of Hebi in China's Henan province, reported ChinaAid, a Christian human rights organization that promotes religious freedom and rule of law in China.

“The Chinese government often views religions, including Christianity, as foreign attempts to undermine its rule, even though there is no evidential basis for such a claim,” the ChinaAid report states. “As a result, they often try to suppress religious adherents, and they openly forbid Communist Party members from practicing a religion.”

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Christians in China are being increasingly persecuted, and a pastor's wife was killed last week protesting demolition of her church (ChinaAid.org)

The telecommunications agency allegedly encouraged the communist party members to maintain "correct views" about religion and avoid being persuaded by its ideology.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION SET TO RISE 'SHARPLY' IN 2019, GROUP WARNS

Hebi Municipal Radio Administrative Bureau in Henan publicly admitted to holding the seminar on its WeChat page before deleting it two days later, the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) reported.

Professor Ying Fuk-tsang, director of the divinity school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told UCAN the seminar reflects the stringent controls of ideology through phone and internet networks and he believes President Xi Jinping is highlighting the threat of religion to China.

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Another Catholic believer named Paul said the Radio Administrative Bureau has linked its business with national security agencies.

"It fears that the number of Chinese Christians exceeds the number of party members and poses a threat to its one-party dictatorship," he said.

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The Christian Post reports that China has seen exponential growth in Christian believers since the Cultural Revolution and is set to have the largest Christian population in the world by 2030.

Andrew Boyd, a spokesman for Release International, a U.K.-based charity that helps support persecuted Christians around the world and a partner organization of Voice of the Martyrs, told Fox News China's communist government feels "emboldened because of the lack of protests from the West."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-warn-christianity-enormous-harm-communist-society

Christianity was, and still is a primitive religion and it will never go with our living philosophy. You do not want Islam to have influence on your culture, so do we to Christianity.

Christianity in general (although some sect can be more open than others) can never be living in harmony with our open-minded, advanced thinking Confucious societies.
 
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I know Indian govt and hindus are Islamophobic.
But you take it to another level.
You have no right to criticise us. Your open lynching of non hindus are well known. Not happen in China.
Your level is indeed far higher than us :enjoy:
 
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Christianity was, and still is a primitive religion and it will never go with our living philosophy. You do not want Islam to have influence on your culture, so do we to Christianity.

Christianity in general (although some sect can be more open than others) can never be living in harmony with our open-minded, advanced thinking Confucious societies.


Then why Christianity can be harmony in the most open minded advanced thinking USA, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and also moslem dominant Indonesia?
 
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Then why Christianity can be harmony in the most open minded advanced thinking USA, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and also moslem dominant Indonesia?

Even now, Confucious societies are still far more open minded that any western country with regard to science development or religion (unless poliric is involved), not to mention the Dark Ages in western civilization
 
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You have no right to criticise us. Your open lynching of non hindus are well known. Not happen in China.
Your level is indeed far higher than us :enjoy:
So you accept you DO persecute Muslims and Christians.
I won't defend hindus here. But sure as hell won't defend your transgressions either.
Just remember one thing for your benefit...Religion brings culture. And this culture inspired by divine power will triumph your man made principles of communism.
It will take time. But it will collapse like it did allover the world. Your adopting capitalism can only delay the inevitable.
Islam and Christianity will flourish in China. There is nothing you can do to stop it.
 
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The majority of Chinese never trusted Christians after Opium War, remember the Boxer Movement?
 
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Crushed all the nonsense religion one of the best thing with the communist ideology.
 
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Even now, Confucious societies are still far more open minded that any western country with regard to science development or religion (unless poliric is involved), not to mention the Dark Ages in western civilization


In what way confusius society is far more open minded? what is the measurement?

If you can't understand why some people have different belief than yours, how come you consider your self "open minded" ? :)
 
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But I do have sympathy with China here. The type of Christianity being set up in China is the hardcore Evangelical Church which is in effect a wholly US institution.

They look to the US Evangelicals for all their guidance and will follow their every whim. China does not want this to continue.
No brother mamadou, as i said before, if you are catholic - even more scrutiny; they feel that you are obeying another leader vs Mao.

The new leadership is hellbent on destroying all forms of worship very similar to the Soviet model.
 
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The majority of Chinese never trusted Christians after Opium War, remember the Boxer Movement?


For the opium war case, it was politician that should be blamed, not the religion (christian).

Politician tend to use and manipulate religion for their own advantage. Not only christian, but also islam, hindu, buddha, and any other belief that people adhere - are subject to manipulation by politician.
 
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For the opium war case, it was politician that should be blamed, not the religion (christian).

Politician tend to use and manipulate religion for their own advantage. Not only christian, but also islam, hindu, buddha, and any other belief that people adhere - are subject to manipulation by politician.
I'm agree with what you said. However, this is not only the politician who did that, religious leaders also use and manipulate the religion for their hidden agenda. In the case of HK, we have Bishop that received money from the CIA (with proofs) and spreading political misinformations to deceive their believers.
 
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