'Respectable'?!: China Rips Crosses from Churches, Throwing to the Ground Elderly Man Trying to Stop It

Tré Goins-Phillips : Aug 4, 2020
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And in the last 12 months alone, schools in China have indoctrinated kids against the "evil cult" of Christianity, urging them to report their Believing parents; the government has demanded the rewriting of Scripture to promote communist ideals; officials continue arresting, tormenting, and charging Christian ministers for no reason; and Xi's regime has systematically scrubbed Christian symbolism from churches, ordering crosses and statues and images of Jesus to be replaced with propaganda promoting his government.

[Faithwire.com] On the heels of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) praising China for becoming "a respectable nation"—a line trumpeted by Beijing—local government authorities in the communist country are continuing to ransack churches, tearing down crosses and other Christian symbolism. (Image: Eric Tsang-HK01 via AP /via Faithwire)

According to a post from Bitter Winter, a publication the U.S. Department of State has cited in official government reports, authorities from the Yongjia county government in Wenzhou, part of the Zhejiang province, dispatched more than 100 personnel to Yongfu village, where they removed crosses from two churches at a little past 4 a.m. on July 7.

While officials were removing one of the crosses, they reportedly got into a scuffle with a man in his 80s. Ultimately, the elderly resident was pushed to the ground and injured, the publication noted... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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