China’s newly announced switch to a two-child population control policy does not resolve the coercive nature of the program, pro-life leaders say.<\/p>\n
The disclosure of the change came even as the communist government imposes the most severe oppression in four decades, according to a leading advocate for the Chinese church.<\/p>\n
Christians face the “worst persecution in China since the Cultural Revolution,” Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid, said in an article by Christian Today on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n
That description is justified, Fu explained to BP in written comments in an email interview…[yesterday] (Oct. 22), due to “both the large scale and the severe degree of [the] violent crackdown” against not only the unregistered house churches but against the government-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement congregations. About 300 churches have either been destroyed or had crosses forcibly removed recently in an ongoing campaign, and various believers have been arrested, Fu said.<\/p>\n