Source: www.ChinaAid.org
Date: December 20, 2023
In a newly-released report by the Associated Press, ChinaAid President & Founder Bob Fu explains “under the fabricated charge of ‘fraud,’ many Christians faced harsh persecution.”
The article highlights ChinaAid's bold advocacy efforts in supporting jailed Christian Elder Ding Zhongfu.
He was taken away by police in November on suspicion of 'fraud,' which is a Communist Party strategy to criminalize tithing as justification to harshly persecute faithful Christian house church leaders!
In Bob's words,
"To criminalize Christian church’s common practice of tithing and offering as ‘fraud’ has been a new trend of religious persecution against independent house churches by the CCP in the past 2 years,” said Dr Bob Fu, founder and president of ChinaAid, “ Tithing and offering is part of worship service shared by hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide every week across the globe since the Christian church celebrated her first Christmas 2000 years ago. To jail Christian leaders such as Elder Ding Zhongfu under the guise of receiving church offering is a clear violation of international human rights and religious freedom norms on protection of manifestation of one’s religious belief as prescribed at Article 18 of UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
Please share the Associated Press report highlighting the plight of Elder Ding. More media attention means the CCP might back off on their persecution.
And if you agree with Bob's that criminalizing tithing is a horrific persecution tactic, a gift to ChinaAid's advocacy efforts helps our team outreach to global media outlets and raise awareness of cases like Elder Ding's to NGO and governing bodies.
