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Emoke Greschik
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2020. Júl. 21., K, 21:01:36 CEST
*China removes Christian symbols from citizens’ homes as a condition of
gov’t aid*
In order to receive social welfare payments, citizens in several Chinese
towns have to replace religious symbols with images of Chinese Communist
Party leaders
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By Martin Bürger
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/china-removes-christian-symbols-from-citizens-homes-as-a-condition-of-govt-aid
BEIJING, China, July 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>)
– Several towns in China are using their citizens’ status as social welfare
recipients as a pretext to prohibit them from having Christian symbols in
their homes. Anybody refusing to comply with the local government, and thus
the governing Chinese Communist Party, would no longer be financially
supported by the state.
*“The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God
instead of Jesus,” *one Christian preacher told Bitter Winter
<https://bitterwinter.org/people-on-social-welfare-ordered-to-worship-ccp-not-god/>,
a magazine dedicated to reporting on human rights and religious freedom in
China.
*City officials were ordered “to remove crosses, religious symbols and
images from the homes of people of faith who receive social welfare
payments and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi
Jinping,” *wrote Bitter Winter.
One member of a Christian church recounted how city officials raided his
house, tearing down all religious symbols and replacing them with a
portrait of Chinese communist founding father Mao Zedong. “*Impoverished
religious households can’t receive money from the state for nothing—they
must obey the Communist Party for the money they receive,” *the person
explained.
According to Bitter Winter, “The policy is being implemented in other
localities across China.” In one locality, officials canceled “a disabled
Christian’s minimum living subsidy and a monthly disability allowance of
[roughly $14].”
His wife commented, “Officials told me that we would be treated as
anti-Party elements if my husband and I continued attending worship
services.”
In another town,* an elderly Christian woman* *was banned from receiving
social welfare for **simply saying, “Thank God,”* after receiving her
payment of about $28 in January of this year.
In yet another town, *one official told **a Christian** after raiding his
house and* *putting up portraits of Mao and Xi Jinping: “These are the
greatest Gods. If you want to worship somebody, they are the ones.”*
“A Christian from Weihui city in the central province of Henan has been
taking care of her two sons by herself after her husband died unexpectedly
more than ten years ago,” Bitter Winter wrote. “She started receiving a
minimum living allowance from the state in 2016. In early April, a village
official ordered the woman to sign a statement renouncing her faith and
destroy all Christian symbols in her house. Since she refused, her
allowance was canceled.”
China is well-known for persecuting Christians, as well as other religious
and ethnic minorities. In June, the U.S. State Department’s International
Religious Freedom Report for 2019 dedicated 115 pages
<https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-report-on-international-religious-freedom/china/>
to China alone.
As the report points out, the Chinese constitution guarantees “freedom of
religious belief but limits protections for religious practice to ‘normal
religious activities’ and does not define ‘normal.’”
The report’s section on China lists countless examples of Catholics and
other Christians being attacked for their faith by the government.
*Father Paul Zhang, for example, was taken into custody after he “had
refused to join the government-run [Chinese Patriotic Catholic
Association]. According to AsiaNews, authorities stopped Zhang’s car,
smashed the window, and beat him before taking him away. Another man in the
car was also beaten but not taken into custody. Fifteen days prior to this
event, police had raided a house in which Zhang was leading Mass. His
whereabouts were unknown at year’s end.”*
One year ago in July, *“the Central Institute of Socialism in Fujian
Province organized a course on the work of the Catholic Church in the
province.”*
Several dozen priests who are members of *the state-run imitation of the
Catholic Church* participated. *“The lessons and activities centered on the
theme of ‘guiding the Catholic Church to follow a path conforming to
socialist society.’ *AsiaNews noted the course seemed to focus almost
entirely on political doctrine with very little mention of Christian
teachings.”
The report also mentioned *Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong
Kong, and his criticism of* *the secret deal between the Vatican and the
communist Chinese government.*
“Similar to the previous year, neither side provided details of the
provisional agreement, such as how the Holy See and the government would
make decisions regarding appointment of bishops,” the report pointed out.
Paradoxically, Chinese bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin, “an underground bishop
recognized by the Holy See, remained in a subordinate position under Bishop
Zhan Silu, who was originally ordained without Holy See approval. The Holy
See had previously excommunicated Zhan, a member of the Chinese People’s
Political Consultative Conference, but in December 2018 allowed him to
replace Guo as bishop of the Mindong Diocese in Fujian Province.”
“Zhan was one of the seven individuals whom the Holy See recognized as
bishops under the 2018 provisional agreement,” the report added. “Police
had detained Guo, who had been appointed by the Holy See, earlier in 2018
for his refusal to jointly lead Easter services with Zhan, who at the time
was not recognized by the Holy See.”
Zen recently commented
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-zen-vatican-has-delivered-church-in-china-into-hands-of-the-madness-of-our-government>
on the fact that Pope Francis, on July 5, chose not to speak out regarding
the tensions between China and Hong Kong, even though the prepared remarks
given to journalists beforehand contained a passage on that very issue.
“I have seen the text, which is very mild, in no way offensive to the
Chinese government,” the cardinal pointed out. “Some say maybe the Holy
Father thought it was better not to say [something], or some say he may
have received some word from the Chinese Embassy in Italy.”
“It’s not an isolated episode,” he clarified*. “It’s already a
long-standing policy of the Vatican not to offend the Chinese government.”*
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