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Over 100 Foreign Missionaries Expelled by Chinese Government Secret Campaign
Midland, Texas (July 10, 2007)
China Aid Association confirms that a central government-directed campaign to expel suspected foreign missionaries has been ongoing since February 2007.
Typhoon No. 5 Campaign
According to reliable China Aid sources and collaborated reports by at least five different mission agencies, over 100 foreigners accused of being involved in illegal religious activities in China have been expelled or deported this year between April and June. Sources inside the Chinese government informed CAA that the Chinese government launched a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians, encoded Typhoon No. 5, in February 2007. This campaign is believed to be part of the “anti-infiltration” efforts to prevent foreign Christians from engaging in mission activities before the Beijing Olympics next year.
Citizens from six countries working in Xinjiang, Beijing and Tibet targeted
Most of those expelled are citizens from the United States, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and Israel. They were expelled when they were either working or visiting in Xinjiang, Beijing, Tibet, or Shandong.
According to an American who had been working in Xinjiang for 10 years and wants to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the topic, over 60 foreign religious workers were expelled from Xinjiang alone. Some of the workers had been serving the local people for 15-18 years before they were asked to leave in the past few months. At least 15 Christian couples from the United States and other countries were expelled from Beijing in the month of May. Two American English teachers sent by the English Language Institute/China (ELIC) were expelled from Tibet. ELIC (www.elic.org), a California based Christian organization, is the largest English teacher-sending organization to China and has trained thousands of Chinese college and high school students since the 1990s.
On May 31, 2007, one Israeli Jewish Christian and an American were arrested and expelled from Linyi City, Shandong province when they worshiped together with 70 House Church leaders. Only July 1, three American Christians from Indiana were detained in Beijing and then forced to leave China after their US passports were taken away for 3 to 5 days by Chinese security agents.
Consulate Protection Rights Violated
According to CAA’s private interviews with some of the expelled Americans, the Chinese PSB confiscated their passports for 2-7 days and treated them professional ly while they were interrogated. They were not allowed to have access to US Embassy in Beijing, a direct violation of US-China consulate protection agreements. Some will not be allowed to return to China for 5 years.
This is the largest expulsion of foreign missionaries since 1954 when the Chinese Communist government expelled all foreign religious workers after taking power in 1949. The Chinese government refuses to recognize foreign missionary status in China so many missionaries choose to work in the education or business sectors as ways to stay in China.
“Given the significant contribution to the Chinese people made by those expelled foreigners, this campaign is certainly misguided and counter-productive,” said Bob Fu, President of CAA. “We call upon the Chinese government to correct this wrong by allowing these selfless good-hearted people of faith back into China.”
© Issued by CAA on July 10, 2007.
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中国政府发起”台风五号”秘密行动大规模驱逐外国宣教士
德州美德兰（对华援助协会2007年7月10日）
对华援助协会获悉中国政府自今年2月起发起代号为”台风五号”的秘密行动,大规模驱逐外国宣教士.据不完全统计, 仅4月到6月间就有超过100名外国宣教士被以参加非法宗教活动为名驱逐出境.
熟悉内情的人士向本协会透露,这次”台风五号”的秘密行动是中国政府所谓反海外宗教渗透努力的一部分.目的是打击海外宣教机构藉奥运会之机传福音的行动.
遭驱逐的宣教士主要来自美国,韩国,新加坡,加拿大,澳大利亚和以色列.被驱逐前分别在新疆,北京,西藏和山东等地工作学习或短期访问.
据一位在新疆工作了10年的美国教会人士透露,仅新疆一地近来已有60多名宣教士遭驱逐.仅5月份在北京就有15对外国宣教士夫妇被勒令离境.5月31日又有2位来自以色列和美国的教会人士因参加山东临沂的家庭教会遭逐. 7月1日三位来自美国印第安那州的美国人士也自北京被抓捕和审讯4到7日后近日被迫离境.美国国务院也证实有2名在西藏教授英文的美国老师被勒令离开中国.这2名在西藏的美籍教师系美国英语学会派遣. 美国英语学会(www.ELIC.org)是向中国派遣外教最多的外国基督徒机构.每年为成千上万的中国大中学生培训英语.据悉, 遭逐者不乏在中国服务15到18年的外籍友好人士.
根据本协会对部分遭逐的美国人士的私下访谈,中国公安部门在抓捕和审讯2到7天期间对这些外籍人士态度比较专业.部分人士甚至收到公安部门出具的因所谓涉嫌参与非法宗教活动而需要没收其美国护照进行检查的通知书.但在审讯期间都被剥夺了会见美国领事的权利,这明显违反了中美双边有关公民领事保护权条约. 有些遭逐者被5年内禁止入中国国境.
这次是继1954年中共驱赶所有外国宣教士以来最大一次驱逐外籍人士的行动.因中国政府不承认在华宣教士身份,大部分外国教会人士都在中国教育和商界服务.
针对此次行动, 本会会长傅希秋牧师发表谈话说: “众所周知, 这些外国教会人士对中国的改革开放和社会道德风尚起到了非常积极的作用,驱逐他们的作法是非常遗憾和令人费解的事情.严重伤害了这些为中国的教育和建设无私奉献的外籍友人的心. 也不利与中国建立和谐社会的国际形象.我们强烈呼吁中国政府能尽快矫正这种作法.”
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