By Michael W. Chapman | January 24, 2019
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to harass and persecute Christians and, in recent months, has taken to removing pictures of Jesus Christ from inside homes and replacing them with pictures of dictator Mao Zedong and/or China's current authoritarian president, Xi Jinping.
In addition, Communist officials have removed Christian symbols and phrases on the outside of homes and replaced them with phrases praising socialist materialism.
As the religious liberty and Chinese human rights magazine Bitter Winter and CBN News have reported, government officials in Xiayi county in the Henan Province have warned, “Anyone who hangs up portraits of Jesus or pictures of crosses has to tear them down and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and Xi Jinping. This is the policy of the Central Committee.".............
In September, as reported, CCP officials ordered a government worker to go "home to home" and remove the religious symbols on the houses' gates.
Approximately "1,400 Christian items have been reportedly destroyed in households all across the townships of Xiayi county since early February 2018," said Bitter Winter. .......To Read More.......
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