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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u201catheist nationalists\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":92082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4240],"class_list":["post-92081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chinese-parents-asked-to-sign-kindergarten-family-commitment-not-to-believe-in-religion"],"yoast_head":"\n