are permitted to register with the government and legally hold worship services ... and spiritual groups are outlawed. Tibetan Buddhists in China are not free ... services throughout the country, and certain overseas faith-based aid groups ...

to interfere with the worship or social service activities of such groups. ... For example, in March 2009 the Buddhist Association of China co-organized ... with Chinese leaders and attended services at a registered Protestant church ...

production, operation, teaching or research activities; 2. holding illegal ... not be dealt with as offenders. Section:  Documents Documents- Contemporary China ...

world economic crisis. In these circumstances, the church must ... and to promote cultural and economic contracts. Therefore it ought not to prevent ... in the actualities of modern society and through service seek to change the conditions ...

USCIRF again recommends that China be designated as a “country of particular concern,” or CPC, in 2014. The State Department has designated China ... In September 2013, President Xi Jinping publicly expressed his hope that China ...

and China-based sources reported that municipal authorities in Beijing closed some ... here. Section:  Documents Documents- Contemporary China Topic:  Culture ...

hearing. Section:  Documents Documents- Contemporary China Faculty Topic:  ...