Communist China Cracked Down On Christians In 2022, Report Says

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censored, fined, politically indoctrinated
and forcibly disappeared Chinese Christians in 2022, according to a new
report from the nonprofit ChinaAid Tuesday.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) reportedly employed a range of new
methods to persecute Chinese Christians in 2022 including fabricating charges
of fraud as well as criminalizing the legal international travel of church
leaders, the report states. China’s crackdown on Christianity reportedly
intensified in the run-up to the CCP’s 20th Party Congress in October 2022,
during which time General Secretary Xi Jinping secured a third term as the
communist nation’s supreme leader, according to ChinaAid. (RELATED:
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“Xi Jinping and the Communist Party did all they could to silence Christians
leading up to the 20th National Congress,” Jonathan Dingler, a spokesman for
ChinaAid who worked on the report, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Christians account for approximately 5% of China’s religious community,
according to the CIA World Factbook. While Catholics number around 10
million, Protestants account for the majority of China’s Christian community,
with approximately 38 million followers as of 2020, The Economist reported.

Dingler told the DCNF that after the CCP’s crackdown leading up to the 20th
Party Congress “the tone shifted” within the state-sanctioned churches which
then began treating Xi “as if he were the leader of the church.”

ChinaAid identified a March 2022 paper entitled “Adhering to the Sinicization
of Religion in China” published by the United Front Work Department (UFWD) as
the political motivation behind the CCP’s 2022 crackdown on Christianity.

The UFWD is a “Chinese government entity charged with extending the CCP’s
influence and control over non-Party organizations both domestically and
abroad to advance CCP policy objectives,” according to a 2021 report by the
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). Moreover, the USCC
also identified the UFWD as a “Chinese intelligence service” in 2016.

The UFWD’s March 2022 paper reportedly emphasized “promoting the Sinicization
of religion, adhering to the orientation of the core socialist values and
submerging all religious beliefs in Chinese culture to better adapt religion
to China’s socialist society and the New Era of Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics,” according to ChinaAid.

“Sinicization is the government’s attempt to make a more CCP-friendly
church,” Dingler told the DCNF. “Not only should they submit to the Party’s
demands, but they must also actively support socialism.”

“However, last year we observed that now Sinicization requires even more:
undying allegiance to Xi Jinping,” Dingler said.

China’s state-sanctioned churches must now actively promote Xi’s thoughts
“from the pulpit,” which in practice means that churches which don’t “flat-
out fall at Xi’s feet and worship him are considered ‘inciting subversion of
state power,'” Dingler told the DCNF.

Churches were reportedly even converted into political propaganda centers in
order to broadcast Xi’s speech during the 20th Party Congress in October
2022, according to ChinaAid’s report. Likewise, churches in Jiangsu, Sichuan
and other provinces were also reportedly repurposed to hold “study” sessions
on CCP policies such as “Reinforcing Management of Religion on All Fronts: 10
Prohibitions and 10 Mustn’ts.”

A cross with Jesus (front) and a painting with Joseph and Jesus (back) are
seen inside St. Joseph's church, also known as Wangfujing church, in Beijing
on January 25, 2018. [NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images]The Chinese
government also increasingly persecuted Christians online in 2022, censoring
words like “Jesus,” “Savior” and “Amen” on the Chinese social media platform
WeChat, according to ChinaAid’s report. At the same time, the Chinese
government also shut down church websites and Christians’ social media
accounts.
“Congregants can’t even give to their churches online anymore, thanks to new
regulations,” Dingler said. “They want to break down house churches even
further, hoping they will finally give in and submit.”

However, the full extent of the CCP’s crackdown remains unclear to ChinaAid,
Dingler told the DCNF.

“ChinaAid does not have a truly accurate sense of how many Christians are
affected by persecution, whether that be imprisonment or forced
disappearance,” said Dingler. “Throughout the years it has been harder and
harder to get a clear number because so many churches are afraid to share
their lived persecution experiences with us due to the CCP.”

“Seeing the cases that come in day-by-day, I can’t say I blame them,” he
added.

The Chinese Embassy did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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In article <20230217-1...@news.giganews.com>,

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censored, fined, politically indoctrinated
> and forcibly disappeared Chinese Christians in 2022, according to a new
> report from the nonprofit ChinaAid Tuesday.

They have UN declared human rights of home churches for a long
time.

For a perspective on the pressures on home churches:
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Will she be able to escape from the religious Babylon on the
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