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The government of Chinese intensify crackdown on Christian faith is a major concern for missionaries.
Today, Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces are having their crosses destroyed, Bibles burned, and churches shut down according to pastors and a group that monitors religion in China. Therefore, the government is ordering followers of Christ to sign papers renouncing their faith.
The administration of President Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, religious believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes religious revival change.
The suppression of religious freedom is part of an official campaign to “Sinicize” religion by demanding loyalty to the atheist Communist party. They seek to remove any potential challenge to the party’s power in the Nation.
[BOB][FU] U.S.A-based group China Aid said that the closure of churches in central Henan province and a prominent house church in Beijing in recent weeks represents a “significant escalation” of the continue crackdown of the people in China.
“The international community should be alarmed and outraged for this blatant violation of freedom of religion and belief,” he wrote in an email in lamentation.
What appeared to be showing of people burning bibles and forms stating that the signatories of renouncing their Christianity?
President Trump’s attorney and Chief Counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) wrote in a tweet: “The situation for Chinese Christians becomes direr by the day. We are working tirelessly to put maximum pressure on China to stop the persecution.” Christian faith in the region.
However, some pastor bibles and furniture were burned during a raid on his church. The pastor, who asked not to be identified by name to avoid repercussions from authorities, said several people entered the church began removing all the items.
In conclusion, the persecution is nothing new and has been going on since 2012. A report by the watchdog group Freedom House said a third of all religious believers in China who belong to a faith group were also found to face “high” to “very high” levels of persecution. This ranges from bureaucratic harassment and economic exploitation to harsh prison terms and even violence and other form of embarrassment on human right. Christians must stand up to their faith.
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