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...brutal murder last week of a Christian teacher drew attention to the numbers of such workers throughout the country (see accompanying story). What has drawn less attention is the relative freedom with which they operate, even in the face of a vicious crackdown on "evil cults" like Falun Gong that has led to more than 100 deaths in police custody. Christianity is thriving in China?though its spread not unfettered?and missionaries reflect the growing freedom to worship Jesus. "The amount of personal freedom that people have to practice religion is magnitudes greater than 10 years ago," says Robert Cheeley...
Evian Wong now has a firsthand taste of the new Hong Kong. The 33-year-old business executive is a follower of the Falun Gong spiritual movement that for the past 18 months has been the target of a brutal crackdown on the mainland. On Jan. 2, Wong awoke as usual at 6 a.m. and made the 10-minute walk from her apartment to a nearby park, where she spent an hour practicing the group's freeze-frame meditation exercises. When she arrived at the office, her boss was waiting. He bluntly told Wong she was fired?despite ?having offered...
...spokeswoman Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support us when we are in trouble?" For his part, the master has not expounded further...
...troubles may not be over. Anonymous flyers distributed last week in Shanghai and Wuhan mailboxes ominously spoke of the necessity of taking "extreme measures." "Tiananmen is China's national political altar," says veteran human-rights watcher Robin Munro. "Blood spilled there consecrates a cause." For the five Falun Gong extremists, perhaps only fire could purify the nation's spiritual center...
Beijing Police continued to maintain some of the tightest security measures seen in the Chinese capital for years after five alleged members of the outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square early last week. In the dramatic protest, one woman died and four other people were severely burned. The Chinese stance on issues such as Falun Gong, which was outlawed by the government in 1999, has drawn objections from both human rights groups and other nations?in a conversation between new U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and outgoing Chinese ambassador...