A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
China expends great energy to suppress religion, and even more energy to hide the suppression. Closing streets, monitoring social media, bullying reporters. Facing increasing surveillance and persecutions, believers are forced to come up with inventive ways to continue practicing their faith and dodge arrests.
With the help of the “four requirements” policy, the CCP is seeking to penetrate churches with communist symbols and ideology to eliminate religion completely.
The new rules come into force on June 30 and deprive of agents’ services performers who criticize the CCP, are suspected of ‘separatism,” or follow non-authorized religions.
In Guangzhou, the elderly were “helped” to celebrate the Dragon Boat festival and told they should not waste their pension money in illegal religion, xie jiao, or superstition.
Government claims those who stay at home for COVID lockdowns watch too much pornography. Yet, for the CCP “pornography and illegals” also include independent religion.
“The Principles of Scientific Atheism.” by Li Shen claims that both the non-existence of God and the fact that religion is harmful are undisputable scientific truths.
Top police bureaucrat explains why to implement the program of the Central Economic Work Conference controlling religion is essential.
In Luhuo (Drakgo) a 30-meter-tall statue and its 45 prayer wheels were demolished, generating widespread protests.
After Xi Jinping lamented that social media and the web are used to proselytize for religion, which is forbideen, new draconian Measures have been enacted.
Bitter Winter publishes a secret document leaked from Guangxi, which explicitly claims orders come directly from the Central Committee.
A comparatively new expression, “xie jiao and illegal missionary activities,” may guide the new crackdowns
