Posted on 11/20/2019 6:17:22 PM PST by marshmallow
Hi-tech surveillance equipment is put into use for further control over believers in state-run Three-Self churches in Hubei Province and elsewhere in China.
Bitter Winter has earlier reported that a facial recognition system was installed in a government-controlled Three-Self church in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to check the identity of anyone who enters the place of worship. Such intrusive surveillance is now being introduced in churches in other locations throughout the country.
On October 6, Muyang Church (literally Shepherding Church) in the central province of Hubei, which is also the home of the Two Chinese Christian Councils of Huangshi city, had two biometric devices set up on its second floor. Since then, congregation members have to stand in line to have their faces and fingerprints scanned before being allowed to enter the church. Around the same time, in the city’s state-run Tian’en Church, facial recognition equipment has been also installed to check the believers who attend gatherings.
A believer revealed to Bitter Winter that over a month ago, the local Two Chinese Christian Councils required all meeting venues established by Three-Self churches in Huangshi city to take believers’ fingerprints and put on file their personal and family information.
The churchgoer is disturbed by the order since the requirement not only puts members of congregations under the government’s constant tracking and surveillance but can also implicate their family members and relatives. He added that those relatives who are civil servants or Communist Party members would be most likely punished or have restrictions imposed on their activities; this can even negatively impact their promotion at work.
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Remember. The Democrat Party admires Red China.
Three self? Do they worship Me, Myself and I?
Boycott China
Breaks my heart. Praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ. Anyone ever read The Heavenly Man about brother Yun? Just started reading it. Safely Home by Randy Alcon was really good.
I’m thinking it’s probably “trinity”.
I guess that means you also agree to become an organ donor.
We can thank Pope Francis for this.
Wear Winne the Pooh masks and wear rubber thumbs
And these are the State Sponsored churches. The ones thar aren’t illegal.
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