Beijing Ramps Up Repression of Faith, Labeling Believers as Carriers of ‘Thought Viruses’: US Religious Freedom Official

By Hannah Ng, Eva Fu and Melina Wisecup May 11, 2023

 

The Chinese Communist Party has ramped up its repression of all faiths while labeling believers as people “affected with thought viruses,” according to U.S. religious freedom officials. “Instead of making improvements in the Chinese government’s treatment of people of faith, people of belief, they have been ratcheting up and turning this regime into a genocidal regime,” Nury Turkel, the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), told The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet NTD.  “They have been ruthlessly persecuting religious groups, including the Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, [and] Falun Gong practitioners,” he said, adding that the human rights situation and religious freedom situation in China has “significantly deteriorated since last year.”..............To Read More....