The CCP intensifies inquiries into Christians’ online activities, scrutinizing their every digital step, including purchases of “illegal” religious materials.
Christian Faith in China
Paving the Way for the Bible According to the CCP
Religious texts not approved by the state, including the Bible, are confiscated from churches and believers, replaced with socialist propaganda.
In Jiangxi Province, Crosses Removed from Churches, Cemeteries
As part of the ongoing campaign to eradicate religions, the regime disposes of religious symbols, pressures believers to give up God, and follow the Communist Party.
Numerous Crosses Removed in Shandong’s Linyi City
The CCP continues its campaign of demolishing Christian symbols, as the authoritarian regime perceives them as a threat to its rule.
Chinese Officials Hunt for ‘Pirated’ Bibles
As the campaign “to eradicate pornography and illegal publications” sweeps across the country, religious materials not approved by the Communist Party are seized.
‘They Acted Like Bandits,’ Believers Remember a Police Raid
Gospel Church in Henan’s Pingdingshan city was closed down after law enforcement officers stormed it on October 23, menacing the congregation and seizing assets.
Banning Christmas as an ‘Infiltration of Western Forces’
While prohibiting all things Christmas, China seeks to fuel nationalist sentiment among its population and teach the young about the “evil Western world.”
Christmas ‘Sinicized’ to Praise the Communist Party, Not God
Amid bans on Christmas, state-run Protestant churches all over China were allowed to celebrate the birth of Jesus only by singing “red” songs and extolling the CCP.
Being Christian in Xinjiang: Visitors’ Observations
In Xinjiang, one of the most restricted and heavily surveilled areas in China, Christians are detained for no reason, severely punished.
China’s Anti-Christian Student League of 1922: Preparing the Persecution
Arguments and campaigns of the 1920s against Christianity were still used in subsequent decades, from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.