In May, a Jehovah’s Witnesses elder was deported back to his home country from Shandong’s Qingdao city after the police tracked him down during a religion-related investigation. ![]() After the United Front Work Department and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued last year the Work Plan of the Special Operation to Investigate and Deal with O verseas Christian Infiltration According to Law, authorities throughout China have been cracking down on Jehovah’s Witnesses and other religious groups, like South Korean Christian churches.īecause of the crackdowns, more and more Jehovah’s Witnesses from abroad have been arrested and deported. The main reason for his decision is the intensifying suppression against religious movements and groups from abroad. Some books the Korean Jehovah Witnesses elder used while preaching in Shandong Province. He was reluctant to part with the books after all, he has used them for preaching in Shandong for the past decade. In mid-August, he asked a fellow local believer to keep some of his religious books and CDs, because he was afraid that they could be used to deport him should the police find them at his home. Now, he is getting ready to sell his apartment before the move. He said that like other Jehovah’s Witnesses from abroad, he would try to persevere until the end of the year. This year, he decided to return to his home country. He came to the eastern province of Shandong over a decade ago to devote himself to missionary work. ![]() There is no personal freedom,” a Jehovah’s Witnesses elder from South Korea summarized to Bitter Winter his ten-year-plus experience living in China. There are surveillance cameras everywhere. “I’ve never encountered such persecution as in China anywhere else I have been to. Believers from South Korea are packing their things and get ready to go home to escape CCP’s persecutions and harassment they face every day because of their faith.
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