 Due to the growing influx of refugees from Eastern Lightning who seek asylum abroad, some national authorities have published reports on the group.In 2019, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada published a compilation of its interviews with scholars about Eastern Lightning,.In the same year, the National Commission for the Right of Asylum of the Italian Ministry of the Interior published and shared with the other European Union countries through the European Asylum Support Office a report on "Persecution for religious reasons in China