Chinese school districts in the Yunnan Province have teamed up with Focus on the Family to bring an abstinence-only curriculum to the region’s teenage population.
The province’s ministry of education sent more than 500 teachers from half of the districts in the Yumman province to learn the curriculum in government-sponsored seminars. According to the Washington Post, Focus on the Family plans to extend the program to two school districts per year.
The communist Chinese government has shown distrust for evangelical organizations in the past, however, the alliance with Focus on the Family provides a possible way to slow population rates in the country.
In order to convince the Chinese government to allow the program, a deal was reached in which Focus on the Family agreed to remove all political and religious information from the curriculum.
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