415 Taiwanese missing, detained in China: MAC

DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE: If Chinese authorities do not approve of people’s missionary activities, they should deport them, not imprison them, an official said By Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source A total of 415 Taiwanese who traveled to China have gone missing, been detained or been imprisoned since January 2024, including several followers of the I-Kuan Tao (一貫道), the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.I-Kuan Tao is a religious movement that combines elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and folk religion, and has a significant following in Taiwan. China banned it after 1949 and classifies it as an “evil cult,” largely because it operates independently of state-controlled religious institutions and engages