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The courageous Pastor Wang Yi understood early on what China would become under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. He said Wang Yi had been in prison for more than four years, serving a nine-year sentence for inciting subversion of the regime.

Wang Yi leads Chengdu’s Early Rain Church, one of several large unregistered churches tolerated by Mr. Xi’s predecessor. But Xi sees growth as a threat. Five years ago, he used legislation, bulldozers and explosives.

January 2018, Church Shanxi Golden Lampstand and Globe. On 1 February, Xi Jinping tightened religious laws: illegally closed several unregistered megachurches. They refuse to join registered churches.

December 9, 2018 came raids and arrests Wang Yi in Chengdu. Churches are closed. The campaign isn’t over yet.

The last two lines are At Least 24 Pastors and Other Leaders of Unregistered Churches Arrested, at least 17 people remain in custody. They are guilty of fraud because, as an outlaw church, they accept gifts from church members. Bitter Winter, an online magazine, wrote that relatives were told the arrests posed a threat to national security.

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Tre sjlv churches, which were allowed to register, are also under increasing pressure. Thousands of crosses were removed and replaced with Chinese flags. Many churches were forced to hang portraits of Xi Jinping. The Tre sjlv church is also level with the ground. The ban on children and those under the age of 18 from entering churches or mosques is enforced. Churches have become more cautious, but many have tried to work with children and youth in other venues. Instead of abandoning the gospel, they continued to read the Bible piecemeal.

In March 2022, China banned religion on the Internet and issued new instructions to the Three-Self Church. Religious leaders must learn from Xi Jinping Thought, love the Party, the country, and socialism. The Chinese Communist Party will make every effort to guide the religious circles to support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist system.

President Xi Jinping fears religion will slowly undermine party and secular worldview

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Religious persecution under Xi Jinping is the worst since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.

Tibetans and Uyghurs have long been considered national threats because of territorial issues. But I never thought the Communist Party would point out Christianity as a national security threat, said Bob Fu of ChinaAid. He was interviewed by Chinese activist Benedict Rogers for his recently published book, China Relations.

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Xi Jinping worries that religion will slowly undermine the party and the secular worldview. In 2019, Xi Jinping launched a campaign to clean up the party, with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Foreign affairsRudd writes that Xi Jinping’s goal is to turn the Chinese Communist Party into a cathedral of renewed secular faith.

Pastor Wang Yi, who had said similar things before being imprisoned, added: The war with Xihun cannot be won.

For the Norwegian authorities, it must be clear: Freedom from tyranny is far more important than free trade.