Posted on 01/30/2019 5:59:23 PM PST by marshmallow
Chinese persecution continues into the afterlife, as authorities remove crosses and crescent moons from tombstones.
The purging of religious symbols by Chinese authorities has now expanded to the removal of crosses and crescent moons from cemeteries and tombstones. What is a common and often overlooked scene in other countries – crosses adorning graves and church grounds – could be the cause of government persecution in China.
Mr. Wang hails from a town in Gongyi city, in China’s central province of Henan. He told Bitter Winter that in April of last year, while he was still grieving from the loss of his wife, he received a call from the village party secretary. The secretary said that the government was cracking down on religious beliefs, and that he must tear down the Christian couplet (two-line religious poetry) banners in his home, and destroy the red cross on his wife’s tomb.
Mr. Wang’s wife had been a Christian for nearly 30 years, and he knew what the cross meant to her. But he felt helpless in the face of the government’s order. “When the government tells you to do something, who dares resist?”
A Christian who died five years ago is not being allowed to rest in peace either. Ms. Liu Yun of Anyang city, in Henan Province, received a phone call from an official from her village in April 2018. The official demanded that she return to her home from out of town and dismantle the 160-centimeter-tall cross on her husband’s tomb.
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The left can’t keep their hands off of anything! You WILL conform to whatever the current decree today is!
The ChiCom Party tells Christians they can’t be saved without their permission and that Buddhists may not reincarnate without their permission.
Someday a hard rain is gonna fall on that hubris.
and our pope made deals with these people.....
Happens in this country also in public cemeteries.
In the U.S. the Demonicrats tell the dead who they must vote for.
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