【禁聞】打壓信仰自由 中共到底怕甚麼?

【新唐人2011年5月13日訊】中共當局最近對非官方教會的打壓有升級的跡象。週二，河南正陽家庭教會正在舉行學習培訓時被警方突擊，扣押了49名信徒，其中三名韓國籍牧師有兩人被驅逐出境，一名被行政拘留。據說目前中國地下教會的信徒可能高達8000萬人，中共恐懼北非事件在中國上演，因此打壓動作不斷。

上個月中國基督教地下教會團體「守望教會」，因為在公共場所舉行禮拜，被北京警方抓走了169人，接著連續幾個星期都有數十名不等的信徒被抓。警方抓人的理由是非法聚會。這些信徒和牧師多在幾天後獲釋，但是遭到了威脅，被軟禁在家中。

《自由亞洲》報導，49位來自各地的同工及牧師正在學習《聖經》，三個韓國牧師也在場。鄭州市尉氏縣的國保和宗教局去拘留他們，把他們關在當地一個小教堂裏審訊。公安登記他們的身份證後，問他們家住哪裏？說他們是非法聚會。

總部在美國德州的基督徒維權組織「對華援助協會」傅希秋牧師向《自由亞洲電臺》表示：「當局一連串的行動與最新決策有關。」

傅希秋：「我們了解，在國內的其他的地方也都出現了打壓升級的跡象。這個應該是從去年12月份的『震懾行動』，就是中共中央社會治安綜合治理委員會下發的秘密文件之後，國務院宗教局局長王作安在海南發表了一個講話。」《自由亞洲電臺》

「守望教會」信徒大約有1000人，因為沒有在政府有關部門登記備案，被歸為非法團體，然而中共當局卻又拒絕接受「守望教會」登記。每當他們租到一個場地聚會都會被當地政府驅趕。「守望教會」於是決定在公共場所舉行禮拜，直到當局允許他們正式登記，或者擁有一個進行宗教活動的場所。

5月1號，由美國民主基金會主辦的「第六屆族群青年領袖大會」，在美國洛杉磯舉行，邀請了法輪功人權、中國家庭教會、天主教以及其他受迫害的少數民族參與討論「中國的宗教問題」。

中國家庭教會代表穆文斌表示：「目前呢，(受迫害的)中國的家庭教會比法輪功還好一點，因為人太多了。它不能把基督教定為邪教，全世界有20億基督徒，從上半年開始，一直抓了好幾百人。」

法輪功人權代表陳師眾，拿著一張張法輪功學員在中國勞教所被迫害的照片，語重心長的說：「看守所，頭三個月就進來多少人，幾千看守所，有多少房間，數字大的不得了，它的罪行對法輪功學員酷刑是最為殘忍的。」

根據《明慧網》統計，至今被迫害死亡的法輪功學員有3434人，全中國被非法判刑的法輪功學員至少有6000人，被非法勞教的人數超過10萬人，數千人被強迫送入精神病院，受到破壞中樞神經藥物的摧殘，大批法輪功學員被綁架到各地“洗腦班”遭受精神折磨，更多人受到所謂“執法人員”的毒打、體罰和經濟敲詐。

加州大學洛杉磯分校吳英連指出：「這些年，法輪功學員遭受的迫害是最嚴重的。我們在反迫害的同時呢，也在維護其他人的權利。」

聯合國一位人權特派專員也表示，迫害在中國是語言無法描述的。

新唐人記者李庭、薛莉綜合報導。

CCP』s Suppression Intensifies

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has tightened

its suppression on civil religious activities.

Tuesday in Zhengyang, Henan, police raided

a family church and detained 49 believers,

2 of 3 Korean pastors were expelled, one detained.

China has ca. 8000 underground church believers,

and due to fear of North Africa-like rights activities,

CCP suppression intensifies.

Underground Christian Watchman Church has

last month suffered invasion during public service,

with 169 members arrested and dozens detained

in the following weeks.

Police accused them of illegal assembly.

Though released a few days later, those believers

were threatened and kept under house arrest.

RFA reported that police from national security

and religion department raided a family church

in Weishi county, Zhengzhou, when 49 believers

and 3 Korean pastors were having Bible study.

They were locked in a local church, interrogated,

and accused of unlawful gathering.

Fu Xiqiu, pastor of Assistance to China (a Christian

rights organization based in Texas), said that

CCP』s recent clampdowns is due to its new policy.

Fu Xiqiu: “We noticed that in other Chinese regions

CCP』s crackdown had been intensified. It started

back last December when CCP』s safety committee

released a secret order known as Deterrent Action,

and State Religious Affairs Secretary

Wang Zuoan made his speech in Hainan.”

With about 1000 members, The Watchmen Church

is classified as an illegal church as it is not registered.

CCP authorities do not allow them to register and

when they congregate police comes to dispel them.

The Watchmen Church then decided to hold

church services in public areas and are resolute

to not stop until they get permission to register

or get a legal place for public church services.

On May 1, Foundation for American democracy

hosted the 6th Ethnic Youth Leadership Conference

in L.A., inviting groups such as Falun Gong,

China』s Family Church, Catholics and other

persecuted minorities to join and discuss

religions』 issues in China.

Chinese Family Church representative Mu Wenbin

said, “Family Church is a bit more fortunate than

Falun Gong, due to the large number of believers

in China, CCP can』t just term us as cult, knowing

that there are 2 billion Christians in the world, and

still hundreds of us were arrested since January.”

Falun Gong rights representatives Chen Shizhong,

holding photos of Falun Gong practitioners tortured

in prison, said heartbrokenly, “A considerable

number of Falun Gong practitioners were jailed

in the first 3 months of the year and thinking about

the numerous jails in China, it』s unimaginable,

the persecution is the cruelest of its kind.”

clearwisdom.net』s statistics showed, so far, there are

3434 Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death,

at least 6000 practitioners are illegally sentenced,

over 100,000 are in illegal detention, thousands in

mental hospitals, forced to take harmful substances,

countless of them are arrested and thrown to prisons

for brainwashing and torture, and even more are

beaten, attacked and blackmailed by “law officials.”

Wu Yinglian from UCLA said, “The persecution

of Falun Gong is the severest and as we defend

ourselves, in a sense we are defending others

who are in the same situation.”

UN human rights commissioner also agreed

that the persecution in China is unimaginably cruel.

NTD reporters Li Ting and Xue Li