{"id":35660,"date":"2020-07-29T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35660"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T10:38:25","slug":"china-orders-christians-to-take-down-images-of-jesus-from-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/07\/29\/china-orders-christians-to-take-down-images-of-jesus-from-their-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA ORDERS CHRISTIANS TO TAKE DOWN IMAGES OF JESUS FROM THEIR HOMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinese communist authorities have ordered poor Christian villagers to remove Christian images from their homes and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping or risk losing their welfare benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued its program of \u201cSinicization\u201d of religion by channeling religious fervor in the country toward the Party rather than God, the Christian Post reported this weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May, an official in the eastern province of Shandong raided the home of a local Christian and hung pictures of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping on the wall in place of Christian images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese are the greatest gods. If you want to worship somebody, they are the ones,\u201d the official told them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, China\u2019s \u201csocial credit system\u201d was scheduled to become fully functional, assigning points to each individual based on how much the Communist Party approves of them and using their rating to control their behavior and access to certain benefits..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are fears that China\u2019s new \u2018social credit system\u2019 \u2013 designed to reward good citizenship and punish bad \u2013 will be used to discriminate against Christians,\u201d wrote the Catholic charity organization Aid to the Church in Need in a 2019 report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fears are tied to \u201ccash rewards for those who inform on underground churches and other \u2018unofficial\u2019 places of worship,\u201d indicating that the government might also reward the persecution of Christians with high \u201csocial credit\u201d scores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the religious liberty magazine Bitter Winter, the CCP is now using state welfare benefits as leverage to coerce people into worshiping the Party rather than Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April, for instance, party officials visited the homes of Christians in Linfen, in the northern province of Shanxi, ordering those who receive welfare payments from the government to remove crosses, Christian symbols, and images in their homes and replace them with portraits of China\u2019s communist leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese communist authorities have ordered poor Christian villagers to remove Christian images from their homes and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping or risk losing their welfare benefits. 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