21.   Around the same time, the Communist Party agreed to accept religious believers as members for the first time.

22.   Communists confiscated the valuable works as part of their attack on religious believers, saying the objects would be sold to feed the poor.

23.   Despite continued crackdowns, the number of religious believers has grown in recent years, especially among Christians worshiping in underground churches.

24.   Even the Communist Party has dropped its ban on religious believers as members.

25.   He called on government agencies to spread information about party and government policies relating to religion and religious believers.

26.   In reality religious believers are frequently subjected to official persecution.

27.   It censured Beijing for its treatment of dissidents, religious believers and political prisoners.

28.   Like China, Vietnam bars all challenge to Communist Party rule and arrests religious believers who reject the state-supervised churches.

29.   Religious believers who worship outside government-controlled churches have been harassed and jailed, and Roman Catholics are barred from contact with the Vatican.

30.   Religious believers were barred from being members of the Communist Party and from holding many sensitive jobs.