The sudden order to remove the symbol of the cross from the roof and entrance of a village church in China’s Anhui province cited unspecified “safety” hazards.
The notice, issued in March, was a shock to the church in Yongqing, eastern China, which had reportedly passed official safety inspections for the cross on the roof five years ago. The second cross had stood at the door of the church for over 40 years without any security concerns.
ChinaAid, a US-based group that advocates for religious freedom in China, alleged the order had been made by the villagers’ committee with no legal basis, suggesting it may have originated with higher-level authorities who wanted to avoid international criticism.
Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi.
>During the war, Rosenberg drafted a plan for the future of religion in Germany which would see a Positive Christian Reich influenced by Germanic paganism conduct the “expulsion of the foreign Christian religions”, the replacement of the Bible as the supreme religious authority with Mein Kampf as the holy scripture of Positive Christianity, and the replacement of the Christian cross with the swastika as the universal symbol of European Christianity in Nazified Christian churches.
We’ve been seeing a play by play of exactly this. The CCP being in power as the public at large just buys crap from China is worrying.
BaronVonLazercorn on
They still allow churches there?
DragonSoundFromMiami on
Sounds like some kind of….passifying medication of the populace. Man, there has to be a better way of saying that.
SufferNSucceed on
You think Xi would hang to death on a cross to save his people? “The glorious leader” is naturally jealous.
Lex2882 on
What about Confucius ?
Coast_watcher on
In China the band is called The Xi and Mao Chain
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/) reduced by 89%. (I’m a bot)
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> 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.
> Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi. Other similar instances have been recently reported by local media and human rights groups.
> An image from a separate church shows a photograph of Mr Xi at the end of one arm of a cross and Chairman Mao at the end of the other.
The Jesus and Mary Chain would be better than all of them
suomikim on
In other news, Confederate NRA Jesus and Trump have replaced Jewish Jesus in American ChristoFascist churches.
(at least for Chinese Christians, this wasn’t something they chose for themselves…)
Puzzled_Pain6143 on
The holy couple? Or mother with baby?
Snafudumonde on
Oh Xi-sus, what next
martapap on
I’d rather die than worship xi.
Adept-Mulberry-8720 on
Hahahahahahahaha!
T4lsin on
I am atheist but I’d prefer Jesus and Mary over the dictators.
RazzleThatTazzle on
Who goes to a church in China? Isn’t that like going to a synagogue in nazi Germany?
Zolo49 on
According to Chinese Christianity, Mao sat on the toilet one day and gave virgin birth to Xi.
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Never forget that every time these “anti-West” governments posture their hatred of America, it’s not about a polite disagreement with political systems, but because the alternative they are proposing is a totalitarian cult.
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***The Telegraph reports:***
The sudden order to remove the symbol of the cross from the roof and entrance of a village church in China’s Anhui province cited unspecified “safety” hazards.
The notice, issued in March, was a shock to the church in Yongqing, eastern China, which had reportedly passed official safety inspections for the cross on the roof five years ago. The second cross had stood at the door of the church for over 40 years without any security concerns.
ChinaAid, a US-based group that advocates for religious freedom in China, alleged the order had been made by the villagers’ committee with no legal basis, suggesting it may have originated with higher-level authorities who wanted to avoid international criticism.
# Party slogans and censorship
It was one of multiple examples of oppression cited in a report last week by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an agency that reviews [violations of religious freedoms](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/16/china-frees-us-pastor-after-15-years-christian-fundraising/) overseas and makes policy recommendations to the President and Congress.
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](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/24/top-china-economist-disappears-after-criticising-xi-jinping/),” the report said.
[The Chinese government has also required](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/24/robinson-crusoe-among-books-purged-christian-references-china/) “the display of CCP [Chinese Communist Party] slogans at the entrances of churches, censored religious texts, imposed CCP-approved religious materials, and instructed clergy to preach CCP ideology,” the USCIRF report said.
Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/)
I’ll take it
>During the war, Rosenberg drafted a plan for the future of religion in Germany which would see a Positive Christian Reich influenced by Germanic paganism conduct the “expulsion of the foreign Christian religions”, the replacement of the Bible as the supreme religious authority with Mein Kampf as the holy scripture of Positive Christianity, and the replacement of the Christian cross with the swastika as the universal symbol of European Christianity in Nazified Christian churches.
We’ve been seeing a play by play of exactly this. The CCP being in power as the public at large just buys crap from China is worrying.
They still allow churches there?
Sounds like some kind of….passifying medication of the populace. Man, there has to be a better way of saying that.
You think Xi would hang to death on a cross to save his people? “The glorious leader” is naturally jealous.
What about Confucius ?
In China the band is called The Xi and Mao Chain
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/) reduced by 89%. (I’m a bot)
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> 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.
> Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi. Other similar instances have been recently reported by local media and human rights groups.
> An image from a separate church shows a photograph of Mr Xi at the end of one arm of a cross and Chairman Mao at the end of the other.
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How sad for them.
The Jesus and Mary Chain would be better than all of them
In other news, Confederate NRA Jesus and Trump have replaced Jewish Jesus in American ChristoFascist churches.
(at least for Chinese Christians, this wasn’t something they chose for themselves…)
The holy couple? Or mother with baby?
Oh Xi-sus, what next
I’d rather die than worship xi.
Hahahahahahahaha!
I am atheist but I’d prefer Jesus and Mary over the dictators.
Who goes to a church in China? Isn’t that like going to a synagogue in nazi Germany?
According to Chinese Christianity, Mao sat on the toilet one day and gave virgin birth to Xi.
Never forget that every time these “anti-West” governments posture their hatred of America, it’s not about a polite disagreement with political systems, but because the alternative they are proposing is a totalitarian cult.