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Do Catholics in China Approve of the Persecution of Falun Gong?

No, but the Chinese Communist Party would like you to think so.
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Do Catholics in China Approve of the Persecution of Falun Gong?
Falun Gong adherents take part in a candlelight vigil in memory of Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death by the Chinese Communist Party during the regime's 24-year-long persecution campaign against the practice, at the National Mall in Washington on July 20, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Steven W. Mosher
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to create the impression that Catholics in China approve of their ongoing persecution of Falun Gong. The regime’s “China Anti-Cult Association” has just republished a condemnation of the spiritual practice by the former head of the Patriotic Catholic Association (PCA), or Patriotic Catholic Church.

Steven W. Mosher
Steven W. Mosher
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Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
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