Christians face harassment and disruption in Beijing crackdown on religion, US government agency reports

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44150479

In their effort to “exert total control” over religion and to “sinicise” Catholic and Protestant Christianity, the authorities have “ordered the removal of crosses from churches [and] replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping,” the report said.

The report concluded that “every facet of religious life for Buddhists, Catholics and Protestant Christians, Muslims, and Taoists” was facing pressure to incorporate CCP ideology, and religious elements considered contradictory to the state’s political agenda were being eradicated.

  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I wonder what story the shills will spin:

    • “All Chinese acshually wanted pictures of Xi and Mao but the Christian church forbade it, so this is acshually freedom”
    • “They weren’t really Christian to begin with”
    • “There are no Christian churches because if you search for them on WeChat there are none”
    • “Only ‘idols’ are ordered to be removed. But Xi and Mao are not really idols like Jesus and the virgin Mary. They are very different and are a totally different culture. They are supreme leaders. Everybody has pictures of them in their home but it is not a religion.”