For one Polish-born artist who grew up under communist rule in the ‘50s and ‘60s, learning of the persecution endured by families and children of faith in modern-day China was shocking, but not surprising. Having lived through oppression herself as a child during Poland’s post-Stalinist era lends credence to one of her paintings in which she portrays the “often overlooked” suffering of the children of parents who have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “Children are an easy target after they take the parents away,” Australian artist Barbara Schafer told The Epoch Times. “Chinese children are being bullied for their faith, many are excluded from school, punished for attending church and religious activities outside of school, forced into reciting anti-religion and pro-atheism slogans, and coerced into signing documents renouncing their faith.” Schafer, now 68, was only 12 years old when her own father, a glassblower, died after being …
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