Posted on 04/21/2025 7:22:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
This week is significant for Christians worldwide, including myself, as we commemorate Jesus Christ’s death and sacrifice on Good Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has announced new regulations that will severely restrict foreign missionaries in China starting May 1. Citing the need to combat “extremism” and protect national security, these measures threaten religious freedoms.
Under the new regulation, foreign missionaries must obtain government approval for lectures, sermons, and group activities, facing a burdensome application process that details the date, time, location, and attendees.
Additionally, the regulation includes a comprehensive set of restrictions that prohibit foreign missionaries from engaging in activities such as “Recruiting religious believers among Chinese citizens and appointing religious clergy,” “Organizing and carrying out religious education and training,” “accepting religious donations from Chinese organizations and citizens,” and producing, distributing, and selling religious materials. Violators of these restrictions may face criminal charges depending on the severity of the offense. According to Breitbart, this new regulation is designed to formally end foreign missionary activities in China.
The new regulation is the latest example of the CCP’s deep-seated animosity toward all religions, especially Christianity. Between the 1980s and early 2000s, China’s Christian population surged significantly, with estimates in 2018 indicating it may range from 100 to 200 million — outnumbering the nearly 100 million members of the CCP itself. The CCP, an atheist organization, is alarmed by the rapid growth of Christians. One of the CCP’s worst fears is that the devotion to God could erode loyalty to the party and thus threaten its very legitimacy. As a result, the CCP sees Christianity as an existential threat.
Since assuming leadership of the CCP in 2013, Xi Jinping has implemented a three-pronged strategy against all religions, particularly Christianity.
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Sounds like a return to the days of the Boxer Rebellion.
1899 to 1901.
The movie 55 DAYS AT PEKING(1963) comes to mind. When movies were still worth going to see.
Bet the ChiComs are mourning Bergoglio...
Dims in the U.S. are salivating, hoping they can one day do that here against the “Christian nationalists”.
Ironically, Christianity is more in line with authoritarianism than Democracy. Heaven is not a Democracy, it is a “kingdom”.
That might be so, but if a US Dim went to China, they’d be treated pretty badly. State Department should issue warning for US citizens visiting China whether tourists or business.
Hopefully, Trump will block visas for all Chinese students. There’s no reason to admit them when they’re under such pressure and surveillance by CCP. These students are only in US to spy, bribe officials or agitate.
It is.
If the ChiComs were smart they would pull a Constantine. Create a Theocracy and Conquer the world!
They’ve been doing this for years, decades.
But by all means we need more trade with them. /sarc
And Thomas Friedman quietly applauded.
Who is surprised?
The problem for the CCP is that Christianity is now well entrenched among the Chinese. I would judge that China has the largest Christian population in the world by a large margin (not "self-identified Christians" such as Americans who then go on to reject the most elementary Christian doctrines and disbelieve the Bible, but actual believers). It is all too little, too late for the CCP to stop the spread of Christian faith in China.
Raise their tariffs another 50%.
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