Accountability is exactly what nations need to demand for
the crimes of the CCP committed against Chinese citizens. The Uyghurs come to
mind, the COVID infected Chinese come to mind. BUT what I want to highlight NOW
are a group of Chinese citizens completely forgotten by the West where freedom
is supposed to exist.
Those Chinese citizens are Christians being severely
oppressed being tole how to think and believe … OR ELSE. (**Just a brief
aside… The Biden/Harris Dem Party ticket is a formula for CCP-like actions against
American Christians!)
READ what is happening to Chinese Christians to enforce
Communist rule in China!
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China: 84-y-o Christian ordered to pray to Xi over God;
cross replaced with image of CCP ruler
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post
Reporter
August 14, 2020
Chinese President Xi
Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 19th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October
18, 2017 -- REUTERS/Aly Song
Authorities in China replaced a cross in the home of an
elderly Christian man with an image of Xi Jinping and ordered him to pray to
the country’s president instead of God as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s
efforts to “sinicize” Christianity.
The 84-year-old man in Shanxi Province, China, was among a
number of Christians in several provinces ordered to remove Christian imagery
from their homes and replace them with pictures of Communist leaders, religious
rights magazine Bitter Winter reported.
“The township [Chinese Communist] Party [CCP] secretary
asked me to take down and throw away the cross and told me to pray to Xi
Jinping from then on,” the unidentified Christian told Bitter Winter.
“Xi Jinping is a man, not God. I feel saddened for the cross being taken down,
but there is nothing I can do.”
Similar reports
have emerged from at least five provinces over the last few months, with
authorities urging believers — often low-income households reliant on
government assistance — to replace crosses and images of Jesus in their homes
with posters of Communist Party leaders, or lose welfare benefits.
In June, a village official in Lin County repeatedly ordered
villagers through social media to remove all religious symbols from their
homes, Bitter Winter reported.
“He stated that the cross symbolized heterodox teachings,
which should be purged as per orders from higher authorities. If not, they will
be held criminally accountable. The official stressed that impoverished
households must replace the symbols with images of Xi Jinping,” the outlet
said.
Officials in Lin County threatened to cancel poverty
alleviation allowances if Christians refused to discard their faith-based books
and other items. One Christian told Bitter Winter that every household was
ordered to display portraits of Xi and that residents were to provide photos of
themselves beside them.
In the southeastern province of Jiangxi, officials tore down
crosses and other Christian imagery in the homes of officially recognized
Three-Self Church members. When challenged, the officials told believers they
were implementing state-issued orders.
“Though reluctant, the impoverished Christians had to remove
the symbols since the officials threatened to cancel their subsistence
allowance if they disobeyed. People must follow the party that gives them
money, not God, the officials claimed,” Bitter Winter said.
It was previously reported
that in April, the government of Xinyu city in the southeastern province of
Jiangxi canceled a disabled Christian’s minimum living subsidy and a monthly
disability allowance of 100 RMB (about $14) because the believer continued to
attend worship services despite government orders.
In 2017, CCP officials visited believers’ homes in Yugan
county of Jiangxi province and removed 600 Christian symbols from Christians’
living rooms, and hung 453 portraits of the Communist leader in their place,
according to a report from
the South China Morning Post.
SCMP, a newspaper that kowtows to the communist regime,
claimed the move was part of a state-sponsored campaign to alleviate poverty in
the region since some CCP members believe families’ faith is to blame for
poverty.
“Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of
illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their
illnesses,” the head of the CCP campaign told SCMP. “But we tried to tell them
that getting ill is a physical thing, and that the people who can really help
them are the Communist Party and General Secretary Xi.”
Last year, authorities with the CCP removed the Ten
Commandments from nearly every Three-Self church and meeting venue in a county
of Luoyang city and replaced them
with the president’s quotes.
Following the implementation of revised religious regulation
rules in February of 2018, Communist officials have shut down churches,
arrested congregations, and attempted to rewrite the Bible
in efforts to free religion from perceived foreign influence.
China’s campaign to sinicize religion originated in a speech
by Xi at the National Religious Work Conference in April 2016. At the time, Xi stated that
in order to “actively guide the adaptation of religions to socialist society,
an important task is supporting China’s religions’ persistence in the direction
of sinicization.”
Persecution watchdog Open Doors USA ranks China at No. 23 on
its list of 50 countries
where it is most difficult to be a Christian. The nonprofit notes that while
China’s constitution protects the right to religion, houses of worship are
often tightly controlled and even shuttered if deemed too large, too political,
or invite foreign guests.
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