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China: Christianity

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 64800, tabled on 21 February 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Chinese Government on the recent expulsion of missionaries from the Chinese border region with North Korea.

Answered on

24 February 2017

We are aware of reports of the expulsion of 32 South Korean missionaries from the Yanji region of China by the Chinese authorities.

We have no plans to raise these specific cases with the Chinese Government, as this is a matter for the South Korean Government.

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