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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Chinese Communists to Christians: Replace Paintings of Jesus With Photos of Xi

The Chinese government is pressuring religious believers to remove images and messages related to their faith and replace those images with pictures of President Xi Jinping.

Communist Party officials have told thousands of Chinese Christians that Xi is able to provide for their health and well-being but Jesus is not, the Washington Post reports. A local report on social media claimed officials in Yugan county’s Huangjinbu township visited poor Christian households to help them embrace the party’s solutions to their material want.

Officials "melted the hard ice in their hearts" and "transformed them from believing in religion to believing in the party," the report said.

Villagers removed 624 religious texts and images in their homes "voluntarily" as a result, and most of them were replaced with a picture of Xi.

Qi Yan, who is in charge of a local "poverty alleviation" effort, said party members were helping Christians in Yugan county stop "resorting" to Jesus.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Party officers at work.

Anonymous said...

And we contribute to this one dollar at a time buying Chinese garbage, Sad!

lmclain said...

"Voluntary" in China means "if you don't, we will kill your wife and kids. While you watch".
Then you get 25 years of hard labor to not only teach you a lesson, but to make an example for the others.
Jesus can't be stopped. In ANY way shape or form.
The Chinese will learn that, too.