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CCP Pursues the Forced Assimilation of Minorities into Chinese Culture.
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. The third is devoted to the real meaning of religious “sinicization.”
To obtain licenses from government authorities, preachers have to prove their knowledge of Chinese culture and socialism rather than Christianity.
Authorities in Liaoning seek to monitor foreign religious groups more strictly in the near future.
The false scoop of The Wall Street Journal explained by Fr. Bernardo Cervellera, the leading Catholic expert on China.
The original Italian version of this article has been published in the Italian daily newspaper “Libero” on September 16, 2018.
The CCP is implementing its “sinicization” policy by prohibiting Christians to attend house churches.
To further its “sinicization” policy, the Chinese authorities have been ordering religious institutions to raise the Chinese flag and sing the national anthem.
The authorities have been forcing Christians to attend “Sinicization of Christianity” course to preach a CCP friendly version of faith.
Several government efforts are underway to severely curtain religious belief in Linfen, a bustling city in China’s Shanxi Province.
China is hoping to be part of the next soccer World Cup in 2022. But few remember soccer started in China within Christian churches.
Students and teachers were investigated and punished for possession of Islamic or Christian texts, or if they failed to report the religious beliefs of their family members.
