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News from China and bordering countries of N. Korea, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. With a focus on the underground house churches of China.
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Friday, March 28, 2003 |
Prayer Request for Today from Pray For China
Bus crash kills 14 en route to Tibet in the mountainous Sichuan province. Government has pushed the development of the vast Western China, which unlike the coastal and Eastern provinces, lags in development.
Churches in Western China are typically small, sparse and generally very poor. Let us pray for countless small churches and their shepherds in this region.
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CHINA LETS LONGEST-HELD FEMALE TIBETAN PRISONER LEAVE FOR U.S.- RFA
Ngawang Sangdrol Expected to Reach Chicago on Friday
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003--Tibet's longest-serving female political
prisoner, Ngawang Sangdrol, has obtained an exit visa from the Chinese
government and is en route to the United States, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has
learned.
Ngawang Sangdrol left China earlier Friday after securing a visa permitting
her to seek medical treatment in the United States, sources in Asia told
RFA's Tibetan service.
No further details were immediately available, and the circumstances
surrounding her departure from China were unclear. In the past, China has
released or exiled prominent dissidents ahead of high-level meetings with
U.S. officials, and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to visit
China in April.
Ngawang Sangdrol, a Buddhist nun who is now in her late 20s, was first
detained at age 13. She was paroled from Lhasa's notorious Drapchi Prison on
Oct. 18, 2002, nine years before completing her sentence, for good
behaviour. A nun at the Garu nunnery, she took part in pro-independence
demonstrations in Lhasa in 1987-88. Ngawang Sangdrol's sentence was extended
three times to a total of 21 years after she and other nuns engaged in
prison protests.
7:55:24 PM
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