China Begins Ordering Crosses Taken Down From Churches, Replaced With Pics Of President Xi Jinping
(NCR) A new report details the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to “exert total control” over the Catholic Church and other religious faiths within its borders and to “forcibly eradicate religious elements” that the party deems contrary to its political and policy agenda.
The analysis, published by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) last week, asserts that the CCP’s “sinicization of religion” policy consistently violates the internationally protected right to freedom of religion. The term sinicization means to conform something to Chinese culture, but the policy essentially subordinates faiths to “the CCP’s political agenda and Marxist vision for religion,” according to the report.
Chinese officials have ordered the removal of crosses from churches and have replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with images of President Xi Jinping, according to the report. They have also censored religious texts, forced members of the clergy to preach CCP ideology, and mandated to continue reading, click here.
This article was written by Tyler Arnold and published at the NCR
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Could Communism get any worse. Ping is as bad as was Stalin – Hitler and Mao all rolled into one sick P0S who is so narcissistic he probably thinks he’s god.
This has been going on since the communists took over in 1949. The government there took over the catholic church in 1957, with the formation of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. And protestant denominations under the banner of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Until 1980 and the government’s formation of China Christian Council.
What concerns me is the lack of awareness of many in the western world to the fact that our governments are doing the same thing, in different ways, using different mechanisms. And it’s plainly evident to anybody who’s paying attention. Many in this country are no less controlled and subjugated. And other western nations are worse.