(Kyodo) _ A Chinese Christian activist living in the United States will give the U.S. Congress secret documents about China's efforts to control religion, the activist's organization said Tuesday.Rev. Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, will provide the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Thursday with documents he believes explain why Chinese students have since June been compelled to sign "anti-cult" statements and why house church leaders have been arrested, the association said in a statement.The documents give reasons for a one-year suspension in recruiting new students for religious studies alongside a $55 million increase in the government's religious affairs budget, the association said. They also explain the arrests of Internet dissidents and the closure of media outlets, according to the statement.The documents come from the Chinese Communist Party's departments of propaganda and personnel plus four government offices, the statement says.Fu has been invited to testify Thursday on religious freedom in China before the commission, which was created by Congress in 2000 with the legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to submit an annual report to the president and the Congress.
