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From @chinaaid : "From 709 crackdown to 709 family: ChinaAid Summer Camp 2022 Recap"

The ChinaAid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.

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From 709 crackdown to 709 family: ChinaAid Summer Camp 2022 Recap
Distributed by ChinaAid, July 2022 ...

MIDLAND, TEXAS – On July 9, 2015, the Chinese government arrested, summoned, and criminally detained more than 200 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, dissidents, and their family members across 23 provinces. This incident was known as the “709 crackdown” and attracted broad attention from the international community. Some of their families managed to flee China and came to America. Seven years later, ChinaAid organized a summer camp for family members of the persecuted lawyers who are still imprisoned or confined by the Chinese government. Altogether, 50 family members including children flew to Midland, Texas from all over the United States ...

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