A letter of appeal
We are urging the authorities of France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other European countries to urgenti grant political asylum to Chinese citizens who have been persecuted because of their religious beliefs in China.
The Church of Almighty God (CAG), also known as Eastern Lightning, has long been one of the most severely persecuted Chinese house churches by the Chinese Communist government. Since its establishment in 1991, the CAG has continued to endure the brutal repression and persecution of the Chinese Communist government. In 1995, the CCP government used trumped-up charges such as "fraud in the name of religion, Qigong" and "deification of their leading members" to condemn the CAG as an "evil cult" and brutally repress and persecute the CAG. According to rough statistics, in just the two short years between 2011 and 2013, the number of Christians of the CAG illegally arrested, detained and sentenced by the Communist Party reached 380,380 people, of which 43,640 people were subjected to various methods of torture at the hands of kangaroo courts, including 13 people who were persecuted to death. As of now, there are already 44 well-documented cases of Christians of the CAG killed by the Communist Party. (For details, see "A Brief History of the CCP's Persecution of the Church of Almighty God.") In 2017, the repression of the CAG by the Communist Party continues to escalate. (see e.g, http://www.cesnur.org/2017/almighty_china_report.pdf).(see e.g,https://www.godfootsteps.org/proofs/12623.html#mulu-1)