China Expels Dozens of Foreign Missionaries, Closes Down Christian Companies
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspndent
BosNewsLife

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese authorities have expelled dozens of foreign Christian workers, including Americans, and closed down several Christian owned companies as part of an effort to end the spread of Christianity in several areas, including in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region investigators and legal documents confirmed Wednesday, October 10.

At least "50 foreign Christian workers accused of being involved in illegal religious activities in Xinjiang have been have been expelled or deported in the past six months," said China Aid Association (CAA) a well-informed religious rights group with close contacts with house churches and officials. "Sources inside the Chinese government informed CAA that the Chinese government launched a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians, encoded Typhoon No. 5, in February 2007," the group told BosNewsLife.

"This campaign is believed to be part of the anti-infiltration effort to prevent foreign Christians from engaging in mission activities before [and during] the Beijing Olympics next year," CAA explained. Other sources, including Christian rights group Open Door, earlier told BosNewsLife that such a campaign was underway, citing house church Christians. the rest