So is California going to start taking over empty churches now?
In the central province of Henan’s Weihui City, a widowed, Christian single mother caring for two sons says the government canceled her welfare payment in April after a CCP official ordered her “to sign a statement renouncing her faith and destroy all Christian symbols in her house” and she refused to comply.
The Communist Party regime has long preyed upon impoverished Chinese Christians. In 2017, Breitbart News reported that the CCP threatened to withhold poverty relief packages from rural Christians if they failed to replace religious iconography in their homes and houses of worship with images of Communist Party leaders, such as Xi Jinping.
In addition, the CCP has used the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to shut down and even demolish Christian churches left empty by bans on large gatherings.
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Victim of Cardinal McCarrick files multiple lawsuits against the archdioceses of New York and Newark and the diocese of Metuchen.
Theodore McCarrick to be deposed by victim's lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian. Garabedian was lead attorney in lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Boston.
McCarrick is responsible for the sellout of Chinese Catholics and all Chinese Christians. He has never been deposed. Hopefully, all will be revealed.
In a curious twist, Gov. Andrew Cuomo inadvertantly provided the means to pursue these lawsuits. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”