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

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.

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    26 days ago

    she came into the manger, way overdue,

    and plonked herself down next to the ewe.

    then – leaning back on the cow –

    did she, the great chairman mao,

    immaculately embirth winnie the pooh.