China is removing crosses from churches, replacing images of Christ with Xi Jinping, per USCIRF report | Catholic News Agency
What a nightmare.
What a nightmare.
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A new report details the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) efforts to "exert total control" over the Catholic Church and other religious faiths within its borders and to "forcibly eradicate religious elements" that the party deems contrary to its political and policy agenda.
The analysis, published by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) last week, asserts that the CCP's "sinicization of religion" policy consistently violates the internationally protected right to freedom of religion. The term sinicization means to conform something to Chinese culture, but the policy essentially subordinates faiths to "the CCP's political agenda and Marxist vision for religion," according to the report.
Chinese officials have ordered the removal of crosses from churches and have replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with images of President Xi Jinping, according to the report. They have also censored religious texts, forced members of the clergy to preach CCP ideology, and mandated the display of CCP slogans within churches.
