• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • ABOUT CHINA
    • NEWS
    • TESTIMONIES
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • GLOSSARY
    • CHINA PERSECUTION MAP
  • FROM THE WORLD
    • NEWS GLOBAL
    • TESTIMONIES GLOBAL
    • OP-EDS GLOBAL
    • FEATURED GLOBAL
  • INTERVIEWS
  • DOCUMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS
    • DOCUMENTS
    • THE TAI JI MEN CASE
    • TRANSLATIONS
    • EVENTS
  • ABOUT
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • TOPICS

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

three friends of winter
Home / China / News China

Anti-Religious Activities Amplified in Henan

10/28/2018Jiang Tao |

Henan featured image
A confidential document adopted by the municipal government in one of the province’s cities lists specific measures to crack down on religious liberties, including online propaganda and the promotion of “patriotic” clergy.

Bitter Winter accessed a confidential document that outlines the supervision of religious activities in a city of Henan Province. Entitled Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work, the document covers such issues as the crackdown on underground Catholic churches and religious activities by foreigners in China as well as anti-religious propaganda campaigns online.

As per the document, the “independence and autonomy” of the Catholic Church in China remains one of the primary goals of the government’s policy on religion. The document demands to cultivate young and middle-aged patriotic Catholic priests vigorously and promote government-elected and -consecrated bishops, to “ensure that patriotic persons hold China’s Catholic leadership.”

To “transform Catholic underground forces,” the document demands to conduct “self-inspections” on the effectiveness of measures prohibiting religious activities as well as on the number of closed down churches and “transformed” bishops, priests, and believers.

The document confirms that the persecution of South Korean Christianity remains a priority, and all religious activities supported by foreign countries are to be investigated and punished. Orders are given to “resist intervention by overseas Catholic forces in Chinese church affairs, earnestly resolve the issue of the ‘two-facedness’ of some religious personnel, and seriously investigate and punish the acts of receiving and transmitting the directives of foreign forces.”

The document also proposes specific control measures to investigate and punish those involved in posting “harmful” religious content online. To strengthen the presence of anti-religious opinions, the document encourages carrying out “transformation through education” work aimed at online religious “Big Vs” – opinion leaders, such as scholars, celebrities, and pop stars that have large numbers of followers on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website.

The control over religion in schools and the financial management of religious venues, as well as the elimination of minority ethnic clothing and architecture, remain among the focal points of the policy on religion.

Reported by Jiang Tao

Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work
Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work

 

Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work
Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work

 

Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work
Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work

 

Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work
Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work

 

Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work
Document adopted in a city of Henan Supervision and Self-Inspection Framework for Implementing the Central Authorities’ Religious Work

Tagged With: Catholic Church, Religious Liberty

Jiang Tao profile picture
Jiang Tao

Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

Related articles

  • Une deuxième lettre de plus de 80 universitaires ukrainiens demande au Président Macron de mettre fin au soutien français à la fédération antisectes FECRIS

    Une deuxième lettre de plus de 80 universitaires ukrainiens demande au Président Macron de mettre fin au soutien français à la fédération antisectes FECRIS

  • Iran: “Christians Are Constantly Watched as Spies”

    Iran: “Christians Are Constantly Watched as Spies”

  • Loup Blanc. 2. A Community in Search of Self-Liberation

    Loup Blanc. 2. A Community in Search of Self-Liberation

  • « Maltraitance religieuse des enfants ». Une autre attaque contre la liberté religieuse au Japon. 2. « Maltraitance psychologique »

    « Maltraitance religieuse des enfants ». Une autre attaque contre la liberté religieuse au Japon. 2. « Maltraitance psychologique »

Keep Reading

  • Loup Blanc. 2. Une communauté en quête d'autolibération
    Loup Blanc. 2. Une communauté en quête d'autolibération

    Un regard sur les disciples et les enseignements de Loup Blanc, le maître spirituel français qui a été arrêté en 2021.

  • 日本の宗教献金法2. 「恐怖」と宗教的詐欺行為
    日本の宗教献金法2. 「恐怖」と宗教的詐欺行為

    新法は、現世や来世での不幸を「恐れる」ことや、「霊感のある」教師への信頼に基づく寄付を禁止しており、実際にはあらゆる宗教に疑いの目を向けている。

  • Japan’s Religious Donations Law. 2. “Fear” and Religious Fraud
    Japan’s Religious Donations Law. 2. “Fear” and Religious Fraud

    The new law, by prohibiting donations based on “fear” of misfortunes in this or in the next life and on trust in “inspired” teachers, in fact looks with suspicion at all religions.

  • Why “Cults” (and “Brainwashing”) Do Not Exist
    Why “Cults” (and “Brainwashing”) Do Not Exist

    An appeal to avoid labels that have no accepted scientific meaning and are used as tools of discrimination.

Primary Sidebar

Support Bitter Winter

Learn More

Follow us

Newsletter

Most Read

  • Cultural Genocide: The Indoctrination of Uyghur Children by Gulfiye Y
  • Wenzhou, Parents Asked to Sign a “Kindergarten Family Commitment Not to Believe in Religion” by He Yuyan
  • Why “Cults” (and “Brainwashing”) Do Not Exist by Massimo Introvigne
  • Pakistan: Ahmadi Mosque Vandalized by Police During Ramadan by Marco Respinti
  • A Uyghur View: Putin Got His Arrest Warrant—Xi Jinping Should Be Next by Kok Bayraq
  • Thailand and Pakistan: No Friends of Uyghur Refugees by Marco Respinti
  • “Do Not Dissolve the Unification Church!” 1. An Award-Winning Journalist Speaks Out by Masumi Fukuda

CHINA PERSECUTION MAP -SEARCH NEWS BY REGION

clickable geographical map of china, with regions

Footer

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

MASSIMO INTROVIGNE

Director-in-Charge

MARCO RESPINTI

ADDRESS

CESNUR

Via Confienza 19,

10121 Turin, Italy,

Phone: 39-011-541950

E-MAIL

We welcome submission of unpublished contributions, news, and photographs. Each submission implies the authorization for us to edit and publish texts and photographs. We reserve the right to decide which submissions are suitable for publication. Please, write to INFO@BITTERWINTER.ORG Thank you.

Newsletter

LINKS

orlir-logo hrwf-logo cesnur-logo

Copyright © 2023 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY