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

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.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Dictators always do that.

    And, not because they’re atheists as the butthurt Christians so often claim.

    It’s all about centralized control and not allowing for divided loyalties or spaces for people to gather outside the party’s control.