Posted on 04/05/2021 8:49:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new report demonstrates what anecdotal stories have been telling us for years. The Chinese Communist Party is actively cracking down on Christians, detaining them and attempting to force them to denounce their faith in exchange for freedom.
This is happening in secret facilities away from everyone, including state-run media. This is an important distinction from other, more public displays of anti-Christian behavior because it signifies an escalation beyond the public control the party has and towards the secret persecution they do not want the world to see. According to The Daily Wire:
The Chinese Communist Party is reportedly detaining Christians in secret facilities and forcing them to renounce their faith or face being tortured for months.
“A member of a Christian ‘house church’ in the southwestern province of Sichuan who asked to be identified by a pseudonym Li Yuese said he was held in a facility run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s United Front Work Department, working in tandem with the state security police, for 10 months after a raid on his church in 2018,” Radio Free Asia reported. “Another Christian who asked to remain anonymous told RFA that similar facilities are being used across China, not just for Protestants, but also for members of the underground Catholic church, and of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, a target of authorities since 1999.”
Radio Free Asia is a non-profit broadcasting corporation funded through the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal government agency.
The communists reportedly focus mostly on targeting “house churches” that are not not members of the CCP-backed Three-Self Patriotic Association, which teaches people a CCP-approved version of Christianity because it views Christianity as a national security threat.
“It was a mobile facility, that could just set up in some basement somewhere. It was staffed by people from several different government departments,” Li said. “It had its own (CCP) political and legal affairs committee working group, and they mainly target Christians who are members of house churches.”
Evidence of torture has been hard to come by in Communist China as their tight grip on national and international media makes it challenging to report on what’s going on. But the rising underground digital space in China is making it easier—albeit more risky—to get evidence out to the world.
Christians face persecution greater than any other religious group around the world. Even in the United States which protects religious liberties through the First Amendment, challenges have arisen in recent years that seek to diminish the influence of the church in this nation. In China, the influence of Christianity has been on a steady rise for decades, but not without cost. They must continue to operate in the shadows, which is why house churches are being targeted by the Chinese Communist Party.
Considering the atrocities being reported today have been trying to find the light for nearly three years, it should send a shiver up Christians’ backs to think of how much worse it has gotten since then.
Dems are jealous and wish they could be more like the CCP
Pope Francis doesn’t care,,He got his chunk of money from China,so they can do what they want with the Catholics....
>>Uniparty Democrats-RINOs claim they allow religion in their nation as long as it doesn’t interfere with party business.
Nonsense, it’s no lie, everything in China is party business.
My feeling is that the current Democrat Party is jealous of the CCP.
Exactly.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” - Benito Mussolini
Cancelling all forms of religion centered around supernatural beings IS party business. All governments, to a greater or lesser degree, are in competition with organized religion, and will seize upon sometimes very flimsy excuses to persecute and restrict the practice of that religion, or co-opt it entirely, making it part of the state and subservient to the regime in power.
One of the great strengths of the US Constitution is a “hands-off” policy, enshrined in the First Amendment, in that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Up to now, this has sort of stayed the heavy hand of government from swooping in and persecuting any number of cults and sects, but that is rapidly eroding. Nobody reads or follows the Constitution to the degree it ought to be carried out in our daily lives.
A Mussolini today might say:
Everything will be Woke, nothing will not be Woke, nothing will be against the Woke.
Coming to a Country near YOU!
I miss Trump. China will do as they please now there paid off president is in office. What is biden gonna do.. likely take the tariffs off and give them our jobs.
And the NBA, MLB, Nike, et al are all OK WITH THIS!!
They will, you can bet on it.
I lived in Sichuan province as recently as 2019 and I had no trouble attending a Christian Church. It’s true that underground churches are shut down by authorities. But this seems more Christian friendly than, say, Saudi Arabia. Finally, understand that Falun Gong is the worst sort of cult.
Organized religion like any other organized group is an existential threat to the CCP.
“The CCP wants to control everything and only allows pro-CCP organizations, even in foreign countries. If an organization is big enough, the CCP will try to control it; if it won’t cooperate, the CCP will treat it as an enemy.”
Mainland Chinese overseas student.
Since 2019 as I understand it the CCP has begun a serious crackdown on the Church; if you find one, you would more likely hear a sermon about the wonders of the CCP than the Lord.
Pray, pray, pray for them.
RE: I lived in Sichuan province as recently as 2019 and I had no trouble attending a Christian Church.
The article does not say that you are not allowed to worship in a Christian Church. Any church is allowed as long as it is not seen as being a threat to the CCP.
Hence, the message of the Pastor better be carefully edited to even insinuate that there is any “Lord” who is above the CCP.
More proof that Communism was inspired by Satan to destroy Christ’s church.
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