In their effort to “exert total control” over religion and to “sinicise” Catholic and Protestant Christianity, the authorities have “ordered the removal of crosses from churches [and] replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping,” the report said.

The report concluded that “every facet of religious life for Buddhists, Catholics and Protestant Christians, Muslims, and Taoists” was facing pressure to incorporate CCP ideology, and religious elements considered contradictory to the state’s political agenda were being eradicated.

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    Lmao that’s fucking hilarious.

    NK levels of brain rot here we come!

    Right on track to repeat the horrors of the past with complete blind faith in himself.

    I can’t wait to watch him fall on his face royally.

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    Good thing all the sources are from US based institutions and NGOs. Must mean they are completely factual and unbiased.

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      First that’s attacking the messenger not the message. Cope. Second seeing how ML rely on information disproven nearly 100 years ago. And how ML state media is worse than western media on every metric. A true accomplishment! It’s an especially sad and hilarious tactic.

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        So if a known liar makes an unfalsifiable claim you think people should just take it as fact? That’s absurd.

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      because China has always been oh so welcoming of other religions right? Sources are great but calling this an outrageous claim is a bit much given the historical context.

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        I mean, it’s a pretty big step from “we need to pre-approve priests” to “actually, your religion is about something completely different now”.

        And, more importantly, it’s the Telegraph. If it was the Guardian I’d go “gee whiz, that’s a whole new level, very unexpected”.

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    Let China dive this shits into Middle East countries’s mouth :)