By Patrick Goodenough | April 26, 2021 | 5:04am EDT
China’s national flag flies in front of a Catholic Church in Beijing which falls under the state-sanctioned patriotic association. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Two new reports on religious freedom issued by U.S.-based bodies in recent days are drawing fresh attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s five-year campaign aimed at tightening the atheist ruling party’s control over religious faith.
The CCP’s program of “sinification” or “sinicization” of religion, a five-year plan running from 2018 through 2022, includes measures designed to ensure religious adherents’ loyalty to the CCP and Xi Jinping. In the case of Christianity, that means loyalty to the state should take precedence over belief in Jesus Christ.
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