China tells Christians to renounce faith in Jesus & worship President Xi Jinping instead - Christian Today
China has ordered Christian villagers to renounce their faith and worship the nation's Communist Party leaders instead.
Chinese authorities visited Christian homes in Linfen in the northern province of Shanxi in April and told residents who were on welfare benefits that they had to take down all crosses, and replace any displays of Jesus with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping, according to religious freedom magazine, Bitter Winter.
Any Christians who refused to comply with the demand had their welfare subsidies annulled.
One local pastor reported to Bitte Winter: "All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images. The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus."
In one village, a Christian from the state-sponsored Three-Self Church reported how authorities forcefully eliminated all Christian imagery including any images of Jesus in his home. Officials replaced the images with a portrait of Mao Zedong.
- Father, we pray Your mighty hand of protection for the Believers in China- both in the underground church and the visible one. May they receive Your provision, strength, faith, hope and victory in the midst of this latest persecution.
- "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." (Matthew 5:11,12)
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