Even members of government-approved churches find it hard to practice their faith, as authorities throughout China exert increasingly harsh suppression measures.
State-Run Protestant Churches Demolished on Bogus Pretexts
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New High School Textbooks for Patriotic Education
The new teaching materials are one more tool to indoctrinate China’s youth by promoting Maoism and slating Western democratic values.
550+ Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in 4 Months
Adherents to this banned religious movement, a key target of CCP’s persecutions, were taken into custody in Jiangxi, Henan, and Guangdong provinces.
Now They Come for the Uyghur Children: Thousands Sent to Jail-Like Boarding Schools
Eyewitnesses talk to Bitter Winter, and confirm that data published by scholar Adrian Zenz, unlike CCP propaganda, are believable.
Inner Mongolians Pressured to Sinicize Their Children
Amid the CCP’s campaign to eradicate Mongolian cultural and linguistic identity, schoolteachers and parents are threatened to accept CCP’s cultural genocide policies.
Government Orders to Destroy Swedish Missionaries’ Gravestones
Shanxi government desecrated the resting place of 20 missionaries, who worked and died in China nearly a century ago, and destroyed a house for visiting believers.
More Bans on Religious Materials Not Approved by the State
Businesses are prohibited from publishing religious texts that don’t pass CCP’s censorship, while postal and courier services are banned from distributing them.
Catholic Clergy Increasingly Subjected to Patriotic Education
The CCP pressures Catholic priests and nuns to participate in indoctrination activities, like visits to revolutionary heritage sites or classes on patriotic education.
Pilgrimage to Mecca Allowed Only for “Patriotic” Chinese Muslims
New regulations on the Hajj by the State Administration of Religious Affair will come into force on December 1, and impose a stricter control
The Case of the Quran Floating in the River: Saving Holy Books from CCP Desecration
Qurans are seized and burned in Xinjiang. In desperation, some put them in the Ili River, wrapped in plastic, hoping they will be recovered in Kazakhstan.