Christians face harassment and disruption in Beijing crackdown on religion, US government agency reports

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.

  • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Yeah Muslims are a bit sensitive when it comes these kinds of things

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      3 months ago

      That’s like saying “catholics are a bit sensitive when it comes to eating meat on fridays”. It’s a nonsense statement

      • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Well you could look at incidence where things got out of hand like the “Muhammad cartoons crisis”.

        Or just look what happened in Sweden with the Quran

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I think Muslims take this more seriously because, as someone who grew up in a region where most people identified Catholic (and most of the rest just had no religion) but didn’t practice much, I wasn’t even aware of that rule.

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          It is quite weird with catholics also. You should not make an image of god is part of the commandments, yet there is all the depictions of some old bearded white dude like in the sixtine chapel.