On Christmas Eve, Chinese authorities arrest orphans living with underground Protestant leader Ming Xuan Zhang. President Bush was denied permission to meet Zhang in 2006.
By Asia News
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Police in the central province of Hubei arrested, on Christmas Eve, a group of orphans and Christian volunteers who were preparing to celebrate the holiday with them. The agents confined the children to a hotel, and "convinced" the owner of the land that the orphanage stands on to evict the renters. This is the charge of the China Aid Association (CAA), a non-governmental organisation based in the United States that works for religious freedom in China.
According to the CAA, Protestant pastor Ming Xuan Zhang - who takes care of the orphans - spent the days after Christmas looking for a new location for his institute, with no success. This is because the director of public security for the village of Sanhe, together with officials of the Religious Bureau and United Work Front Department, threatened the landowners who "might have decided to help Ming".
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The nation of China has more Orphans than any other nation totalling 25 million. As of the last twelve months or so, adoptions out of China have slowed from a year or so wait to nearly three years.
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