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Report: With New Norms, Chinese Communists Seek ‘Total Religious Control’

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. Fears are mounting among Chinese Christians over newly revised religious affairs regulations, as President Xi Jinping continues to tighten his grip on religious bodies. China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) has published a new set of regulations overhauling religious practice in the officially communist country. Despite China’s claims of “religious freedom,” the U.S. State Department as well as numerous watchdog groups consider China to be guilty of systemic religious oppression, which appears to be getting worse, not better. Church officials reportedly fear that the new norms released by the communist government will be used… View Article