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Article: State Department raps China on religious rights.(CENTURY news)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 21, 2008
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The U.S. State Department, in its annual report on international religious freedom, has admonished several Asian nations, including China, for severely repressing religion.
Listing "countries of particular concern" that engage in or tolerate "particularly severe violations of religious freedom," the report highlights everything from government persecution to patriotic education campaigns designed to extirpate religion.
The eight countries of particular concern cited in the report issued September 19 are Myanmar (formerly Burma), China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan.
China rejected the U.S. analysis four days ...