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Read the Severe Persecution of Christians in China.
The label xie jiao, reserved for banned “heterodox teachings,” is now increasingly applied to “normal” house churches.
Even during the coronavirus outbreak, China’s regime does not relax its efforts persecuting the religious groups it doesn’t control.
The CCP continues to suppress unauthorized places of worship, beating believers, looting church property, and imposing hefty fines on landlords.
Unregistered Protestant churches were continuously pressured in 2019 to join the state-run Three-Self Church. Crackdowns don’t seem to ease down this year.
During the last month of 2019, Protestants in the county’s towns and villages suffered intense persecutions, as their churches were shut down for “being illegal.”
Nearly 100 places of worship were closed down in Daqing and Nehe cities alone. Believers were intimidated and pressured to renounce their faith, fined, arrested.
They first cut off the power supply, then terrorized the congregation. Two pastors were taken in for interrogation, threatened to give up their faith.
To drive believers into the state-run Protestant Church, the CCP threatens to take away their social benefits, shuts down and destroys meeting venues.
House churches throughout China are pressured to stop gatherings and join state-run churches, as religious activities outside them, even at home, are prohibited.
The decision confirms that in Xi Jinping’s China independent house churches will not be tolerated.
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