Christians face harassment and disruption in Beijing crackdown on religion, US government agency reports

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44150479

In their effort to “exert total control” over religion and to “sinicise” Catholic and Protestant Christianity, the authorities have “ordered the removal of crosses from churches [and] replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping,” the report said.

The report concluded that “every facet of religious life for Buddhists, Catholics and Protestant Christians, Muslims, and Taoists” was facing pressure to incorporate CCP ideology, and religious elements considered contradictory to the state’s political agenda were being eradicated.

  • FlaxEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Bit of a rubbish take. These pictures are appearing in the three-self protestant state churches or the government forcing the pictures in Catholic churches. Basically all they’re actually doing is pushing Christians underground.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      That’s literally what I was talking about when I was talking about the Indigenous Americans and Crypto-Jews… so how is it a “rubbish take?”