China Is Tearing Down Crosses
By The Daily Beast
Published on August 2, 2015
As part of a wider campaign to suppress religious freedom, China’s government is demolishing crosses in the “Jerusalem of the East.”
HONG KONG—Christians in China sometimes paint their crosses red to remind them of the blood shed by the faithful when Chairman Mao Zedong’s shock troops tried to obliterate their faith almost 50 years ago. Now, many of China’s Christians fear that the current government in Beijing—which just won the 2022 Olympics by showing its friendlier face to the world—is mounting a more subtle campaign against them and their beliefs. In the name of “safety and beauty” and zoning regulations, it is bulldozing churches and tearing down crosses. In the process, the Chinese Communist Party may be helping to create just the sort of opposition movement it hopes to eliminate.
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