Chinese Law and Religion Monitor (July-December 2018) By ChinaAid Association In February 2018, China passed its new 'Religious Affairs Regulations' on its citizens. These new regulations impose further restrictions on its people, which now further encompasses unrelenting restrictions pertaining to China's education of its children. In view of this situation, this 2018 Fall-Winter issue of the Chinese Law and Religion Monitor will analyze the current situation of children's education in China. This issue contains the following articles and reports: 1. In Children's Right to Religious Instruction and to Education about Religion, is by Professor of International Law and Religion Jeroen Temperman's expertise in International Law . 2. In Religious Freedom in Education?, Charles L. Glenn challenges the assumption that a faith-based education tends to make students unfit to be citizens of a liberal democracy. 3. Wang Yi's article, Is it legal for the church to run a school? His argument is that the people in China are facing the clash of the Christian faith with the Constitution of China. 4. In When the nest is overturned, can the eggs in it stay unbroken?" An overview of religious education for children in China, writer Meng Yuanxin details the CPC's history of forcing the separation of education from religion and how the children's religious education in China is gradually disappearing from the public-school system. 5. Katherine A. Capps' article, Liberty of Children's Religious Education in China at Risk, analyzes how China is in clear violation of multiple international documents and how these violations ultimately affect the Chinese children's right to religious education. 6. Japanese writer Sato Chitose's article, ZuoTeng Qian Sui, investigates the situation of the support and education of orphans and disabled children in the Christian "house church" and the Catholic "underground church" that are not registered with the government. 7. "Original material of BaFu school Events" focuses on a religious school which is percecuted by local gorvernment for being a religious school. 8. "Notice - Maizhong Academy" -stated that the Maizhong Academy was investigated and told to rectify all their violations, which included them providing education illegally to children. 9. "Notice - Henan Provincial Catholic Patriotic Committee, Henan Provincial Catholic Committee on Educational Affairs" - says plainly that children are barred from entering a place of worship. 10. In Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School, the writer explains the CPC's determination to control the hearts of the Chinese people. 11. In Uyghur Schoolchildren, Parents Forced to Abstain From Fasting During Ramadan, the writer details the intrusion of the CCP into the families right to Religious Liberty. 12. "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's Bureau of Education's Regulations about Banning On-campus Religious Activities" - This document displays the official stance concerning Religious Liberty in China, even before the new regulations came out in 2018. 13. "The Ministry of Education's Opinions about How to Properly Handle Religion's Disruption of School Education in Ethnic Minority Regions" - This is another CCP document that clearly shows the determined and continual restriction of the child's right to religious education. 14. In Discrimination on the Basis of Religion or Belief in Education, is from Christian Solidarity Worldwide conducted a thorough report around the world. 15. it is In part III of Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt's Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. To summarize, this particular issue of the Chinese Law and Religion Monitor contains carefully selected articles and reports that show the obvious disregard for the international human right pertaining to the religious education of children in China.
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