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China does not fear religions for they feel they are weak and can not question their authority, so they don't have to change what they do.

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Tsering Shakya of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia says

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Tsering Shakya of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia says

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“The party is willing to tolerate the emergence of religion as a purely private experience, but it is not willing to see religion expressed as a sort of collective authority.”

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Quote of government campaigns and results

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Quote of government campaigns and results

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"The Chinese government has initiated fresh campaigns against smaller religious groups" and leading to the death of supposed members of mentioned groups.

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“Heterodox cults” which are fringe religious and spiritual groups are also cracked down by the government. Said to to be against law, endanger society and controlling their members.

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Buddhism, Taoism, and other folk religions are tolerated and don't face discrimination even if they are unofficial and this is due to the fact that they helped shape China and are believed to set China on a good path.

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University of Ottawa Professor André Laliberté says

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University of Ottawa Professor André Laliberté says

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“The religious landscape of China is too fragmented for any one religion to mount a credible political challenge to the regime.”

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ChinaAid, a Texas-based Christian NGO said

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ChinaAid, a Texas-based Christian NGO said

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" Religious persecution, primarily against Christians, was on the rise. The report cited  572 cases of religious persecution, in which more than 2,994 people were detained and another 1,274 were sentenced."

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The communist party is all atheist and demands the party members that are in religious organizations are expelled. They believe that those who follow religious beliefs are not compatible.

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Liu Peng, a scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences quotes

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Liu Peng, a scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences quotes

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"Public security officials monitor both registered and unregistered religious groups to prevent activities that  “dirupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the State. ” " in

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"Two professors of Shanghai-based East China Normal University polled 4,500 people about their religious beliefs in 2007 and found that 31.4% of Chinese adults reported being religious."

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Article 36 of China's constitution says "freedom of religious belief" is allowed and bans discrimination of religion.

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Quote of China's constitutional right but counter

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Quote of China's constitutional right but counter

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"Though China’s constitution explicitly allows “freedom of religious belief,” adherents across all religious organizations, from state-sanctioned to underground and banned groups, still face persecution and repression."