I followed a link from Drudge just now, and although the headline’s source is not reputable (it’s the UK's
Express), the facts aren’t in dispute, and many sources from the
NY Times and
WaPo to
HuffPo have reported on the ongoing attempts to smother Christianity in the People’s Republic of China.
Christian charity China Aid confirmed just before Easter that more than 2000 crosses had now been demolished by the government as part of their “Three Rectifications and One Demolition” campaign.
It also claimed that since the beginnning of 2016 to early March, 49 Churches had been destroyed in the rampage to abolish Christianity.
Christian’s horror as China tears down THOUSANDS of crucifixes | World | News | Daily Express
One partial explanation from
WaPo:
As my colleague William Wan reported a few years ago, long-ingrained fears of foreign infiltration and imperialist plots underlie China's official wariness of religion. Christianity also poses an obvious challenge to a nominally atheist, authoritarian leadership that has a hard time accommodating a plurality of belief systems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-removing-crosses-from-hundreds-of-churches/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/w...es-in-campaign-against-christianity.html?_r=0
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Ironically, where Christianity is suppressed or merely “controlled,” it tends to thrive. I think that the People’s Republic of China is blundering here and nurturing rebellion and disobedience to the state.