A Chinese Catholic woman prays at the government-sanctioned Xishiku Catholic Church on August 14, 2014, in Beijing, China. | Getty Images/Kevin Frayer
Christians in at least one province of China are being held in secretive, mobile brainwashing camps to pressure them to renounce their faith which appears to be part of a planned clampdown on illegal social organizations, including house churches, according to reports.
A Christian in the southwestern province of Sichuan, who was held captive for 10 months “in some basement somewhere” in a windowless camp run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, shared his experience.
“It was a mobile facility that could just set up in some basement somewhere,” the Christian, indemnified with a pseudonym, Li Yuese, told Radio Free Asia.
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China launched a campaign aimed at expanding its control over illegal social organizations that are not registered with the government. This includes shutting down houses of worship that refuse to adhere to the beliefs of the country s communist regime.
International Christian Concern (ICC) reports that the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) is targeting organizations that use the words China, Zhonghua, or National in their names, and those working with legal organizations in an attempt to deceive the government.
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A woman wears a protective mask as she passes a church on February 8, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. | Getty Images
China has launched a campaign to increase restrictions on five types of social organizations that the government has deemed illegal, which includes house churches that aren t members of the Chinese Communist Party-backed Three-Self Patriotic Association.
According to Radio Free Asia, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs recently announced a campaign to shut down organizations that aren t registered with authorities but have carried out activities in the name of a social organization, private non-enterprise unit or foundation.
Organizations that continue with their activities despite their revoked registration are also a target of the campaign, the ministry said.