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China ratchets up 1-child policy, Ignores calls to end forced abortions
Recent reports from China show coercion in China's infamous one-child policy is once again on the rise. Women in the southern city of Huizhou are being targeted for sterilization. Those who have one child are being forced to we...
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US Mulls Solar Trade Agreement With EU, China
The United States, China and the European Union have had initial discussions on a possible “global” agreement to resolve solar energy disputes, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
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US, Chinese presidents to meet In California on tough issues
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are to meet in California Friday and Saturday to discuss important issues in an informal setting.
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Amnesty: Executions in the Middle East Alarming
— Twenty-one nations carried out the death penalty in 2012, according to Amnesty International's yearly report, published Wednesday. That is the same number as in 2011 - but a marked shift from ten years ago, when 28 countries ...
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ChinaAid, 7 others urge Kerry to raise human rights issue in China visit
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) – In advance of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s first trip to China, ChinaAid and seven other human rights groups, have advised him his visit is a “unique opportunity” for the United States t...
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Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a t...
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Warning against euphoria over reforms, as military targets minorities
Christians around the world who’ve been praying for Burma have been warned against ‘euphoria’ over reform, while Christian and Muslim minorities remain under attack by the military.
Sunday March 10 marked the 16th annivers...
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The Dalai Lama says ‘no’ to Christian conversions
Christians in India are expressing confusion and concern over recent statements made by the Dalai Lama. Some of the statements of the Dalai Lama made against conversions and the work of Christian missionaries are causing confus...
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ChinaAid Releases annual report on China’s persecution of Christians
Government persecution of Christians and churches in mainland China deteriorated for the seventh straight year, ChinaAid said Monday in its annual report, with the defining characteristic of 2012's persecution being the govern...
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Chinese dissident Chen honored in Washington
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is receiving a human rights award in Washington Tuesday, nine months after his frantic escape from house arrest to the U.S. embassy in Beijing led to his eventual release to the United S...