The CCP has a new mission: eliminating house churches nationwide within the next two years. In the meantime, it’s upping the ante, forcibly shutting down churches and targeting them even in cyberspace.
Li Mingxuan
Orders to State-Run Churches: Become More Chinese or Face Destruction
As CCP’s “sinicization” campaign intensifies, Three-Self churches are forcibly transformed, losing religious symbols and any likeness to European architecture.
South Korean Missionaries Risk Deportation from China
The CCP continues to persecute Christians from abroad under the pretext of “resisting foreign religious infiltration.”
Universities Scrutinized on Anniversaries of Bloody Crackdowns
To prevent mass protests, CCP increases “stability control” over students and teachers in the months commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre and Urumqi riots.
No Church Can Be More Beautiful Than State Buildings
Three government-approved Protestant churches have been destroyed in Shandong’s Linyi city for various made up reasons.
How to Survive Being Jehovah’s Witness in China?
Believers from Shandong Province share their experience of how to avoid being identified as religious and evade persecution while practicing their faith.
Being Christian in Xinjiang: Suppressed and Persecuted
House church believers from Shandong share their experience of a perilous trip to the Uyghur region to check on how fellow religionists practice their faith.
Burn the Bodies to Hide the Evidence: “Sinicized” Buddhist Statue Demolished
To avoid being ridiculed, the CCP once again destroys the results of its religion suppression policies after they are disclosed on Bitter Winter.
Taoist Culture, Traditions Subjected to Religious Persecution
Though native to China, Taoism has also become a target of the anti-religion campaign: places of worship closed and converted, traditional temple fairs prohibited.
Buddhist Statues Destroyed Ahead of Inspection from Beijing
Fearing admonishment by higher authorities, Shandong’s officials intensified crackdowns on temples and outdoor religious venues, eliminating statues of deities.
Li Mingxuan
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