CCP’s Persecution of Christians: Arresting Believers, Demolishing Churches, Rewriting the Bible

Chinese security guards together with police keep hundreds of Chinese Christian worshippers away from the Wangfujing Catholic Church during Christmas mass in Beijing, China, on 25 Dec. 2003. GOH CHAI HIN/AFP via Getty Images

While the world is rejoicing in the spirit of Christmas, the churches and Christians in China were recently asked to commemorate the late Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin for his “good job in religious work” and for his efforts to begin the “sinicization of Christianity.”

On Dec. 6, the leaders of the CCP-controlled Three-Self Church—also known as the Three-Self Patriotic Movement—gathered in Shanghai to watch the Memorial Conference for Jiang, applauding him as “a great Marxist we all love and miss.” Churches across China were ordered to do the same, according to Bitter Winter, a magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China.