China removes church crosses and replaces Christ’s images with Xi Jinping’s

[1LoverofGod]

A new report highlights the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to exert complete control over the Catholic Church and other religious denominations within its borders, forcibly eliminating religious elements that conflict with the Party’s political and regulatory agenda. Published last week by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the analysis claims that the CCP’s policy of “sinicization of religion” systematically violates the internationally protected right to freedom of religion. Sinicization, which generally refers to adapting something to Chinese culture, is in this case used to subordinate religious beliefs to the CCP’s political agenda and its Marxist view of religion.

According to the report, Chinese authorities have ordered the removal of crosses from churches and replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping. They have also censored religious texts, forced clergy members to preach CCP ideology, and mandated that slogans promoting the Party be displayed in churches.

To subordinate religions to the Party, the government requires religious groups to register with various “patriotic religious associations” and their local branches. For Catholic churches, this means registering with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which is officially controlled by China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs and the United Front Work Department of the CCP.

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China removes church crosses and replaces Christ’s images with Xi Jinping’s - Gateway Hispanic

A new report highlights the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to exert complete control over the Catholic Church and other religious denominations

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[Loudram]

Yep, Communism is incompatible with the true and living God because Communism IS their god.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Hopefully the secret home church's are thriving and they don't need pictures or crosses. Hopefully each has at least one Bible.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Hopefully the secret home church's are thriving and they don't need pictures or crosses. Hopefully each has at least one Bible.

It is thriving. Open Doors who monitors Christian persecution reports increasing growth in the church in China and N Korea and in Muslim countries.
It's a proven fact that persecution only increases the growth of the church where Christianity is banned.