A Chinese pastor is released after 7 years in prison, only to find himself unable to get an ID
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A pastor in China has been released after serving seven years in prison. But The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao, who had studied in married in the U.S., says he's without any legal documentation in his country, unable to access even the most basic services without a Chinese identification.

This article, written by a Taiwan-based “sinologist,” has been copied and pasted over several major outlets and a dozen other Christian clickbait news sites. The pastor in question is John Sanqiang Cao, and was charged with human trafficking upon returning from a mission trip to Myanmar.

I don’t know anything about the validity of the charges he’s facing, and I’m quite certain that IF the events alleged by the article are true, then this is a clear miscarriage of justice.

There is something very funny about this story appearing all over American media, though. As if ex-convicts in the US don’t deal with very similar problems…

  • SadArtemis
    281·
    3 months ago

    Christian missionaries all deserve Sentinel Island treatment. Wherever there were colonizers they were a step ahead of or just behind them.

    This so much, as someone whose family/childhood experiences are a direct result of such missionaries (to my mom, and a bit longer on my dad’s side of the family).

    Missionaries are the scum of the earth. It takes a certain kind of mindset, to target the mentally vulnerable and tell them that their native culture and the daily lives of their relatives are “demon worshipping” and whatnot. And that’s before getting into all the other horrendous (and infinitely worse) antics Christian missionaries all over the global south get up to.