China: Parents asked to sign a “Kindergarten Family Commitment Not to Believe in Religion”

Government authorities in Wenzhou, eastern China, have ordered parents applying to enroll their children in kindergarten to sign a pledge that they are “atheists” as a condition for the school admission documents for next year.

The Catholic News Agency, closely linked to the Vatican, reported on March 23, confirmed that the local authorities force parents to sign a pledge to renounce their faith, and that they do not embrace a religion, do not participate in any religious activities, or spread a specific religion in any way or anywhere, and that their only loyalty be to the Chinese Communist Party.

China Aid organization monitored, in a similar report at the end of last March, that the leaders of the Communist Party forced citizens of Longwang region to sign the pledge, and considered them “atheist nationalists”.