The founder of the Christian human rights charity China Aid, Bob Fu, told Premier over 223,000 Christians were persecuted last year, which is four times more than the previous year.
China Aid’s documented Christian human rights violations also doubled last year and the number of people detained reached 3,700.
“As a Christian you’re always being seen as a suspicious force,” Fu said. “Christianity is portrayed as a foreign, western religion, being suspected [as] a foreign infiltration force to subvert the state power of the Communist Party.”
The crackdown on Christians in China has meant that crosses have been removed from churches, churches have been demolished, and Christians suspected of worshipping at home have been detained.
A house church Christian in China’s southern Guangdong province was recently blacklisted from employment after being arrested for his faith.
Fu said: “Some officials even force themselves to stay in Christian homes overnight to prevent them from midnight secret worship services. We have never seen this kind of extreme persecution since the end of the Cultural Revolution.”
However, Fu said the reason the crackdown has been getting increasingly worse in the past five years is because the number of Christians in China is rapidly growing.
He said that according to a secret government document that China Aid obtained after the government launched…
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