China News
News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty
Saturday, March 27, 2004

Taiwan Opposition Protest Swells, China Fumes (Reuters). Reuters - In Taiwan's biggest-ever protest, 500,000 supporters of defeated presidential challenger Lien Chan massed in Taipei on Saturday to dispute his loss as China vowed not to tolerate turmoil on the island. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
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Beijing declares war on infiltration of “foreign ideologies” [asianews.it]
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Risk of abortion for 40-60 million female children over ten year period

Beijing (AsiaNews/AP) – The alarm has been sounded concerning the number of female children in the country. The United Nations has reported that in China there is the risk that 40-60 million female children will be either aborted or killed in China over the next 10 years, if preference for males is not rooted out of traditional culture. Next week, the UN will release a detailed report analyzing the issue [more]


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RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR RELEASE OF CHINESE CHRISTIANS [RFA]
A United States-based rights group has called on the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release two leaders of underground Christian house churches who have been re-detained by the Chinese authorities, RFA's Mandarin service reports. Zeng Guangbo, a house-church leader from Nanyang City in the central Chinese province of Henan, was re-arrested March 1 in Inner Mongolia while trying to cross the border into Russia to attend a house church ministry there, the Philadelphia-based China Aid Association (CAA) said in a statement. [
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REACHING CHINESE KIDS FOR CHRIST
Open Doors Seeks To Provide 1 Million Children’s Resources In 2004
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Open Doors – an international ministry to the Persecuted Church – is committed to providing 1 million pieces of children’s literature to China in 2004, including 81,500 beautifully-illustrated children’s Bibles as well as Sunday School materials and song books. It is part of an Open Doors commitment to provide over 3 million Bibles and other Christian resources for our suffering brothers and sisters in China. [more]


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Beijing Flexes Hong Kong Muscle. Government says it will settle the question of how elections will be structured. Democracy advocates say the intervention is unfair. [Los Angeles Times World News]
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Half-Million Taiwanese Protest Election (AP). AP - A half million people swarmed into Taiwan's capital on Saturday to protest the disputed presidential election, while China hinted that the turmoil might provide a reason for it to take control of the island. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
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