Frances Martell – Briebart Jan 3, 2025
The Chinese Communist Party is “intent on rooting out every pocket of independent religious thought” and persecutes Christians by shutting down house churches, stripping children from Christian families, and monitoring every detail of Christian citizens’ lives, International Christian Concern (ICC) announced on Thursday.
ICC, a global Christian advocacy organization helping the persecuted church, published its annual Global Persecution Index on Thursday, highlighting the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. China plays an expansive role in the study, both for being one of the most repressive countries in the world and for helping allied governments repress Christianity across the planet, from North Korea to Nicaragua.
China is the largest communist country in the study identified as a repressor. ICC noted that Marxism is one of several ideologies fueling the violent repression of Christianity, alongside Hindu nationalism and political Islam, among others. The organization noted that advances in surveillance technology and construction of repressive infrastructure have caused the deterioration in religious freedom around the world.
“The details of persecution you will read in our report are not isolated incidents. They represent the lived-out reality of millions of Christians worldwide who face daily threats to their lives and religious freedom,” ICC President Jeff King asserted in a message opening the Global Persecution Index for 2025. “This year, we cite persecution trends, including the growing use of technology to monitor and oppress faith communities, transnational persecution where regimes cross borders to target Christians, and the continued rise of religious nationalism, including radical Islam.”
China is an officially atheist communist state that claims to tolerate only five legal religions: Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam. All five of these religions are only legal through government-operated institutions, however, that do not actually preach the teachings of the faiths but instead encourage believers to abandon the faith and worship dictator Xi Jinping.
ICC noted that the Chinese government has enacted its most brutal policies against the Uyghur Muslims of East Turkistan, where China has been engaging in acts of genocide to eliminate both Islam and the indigenous minorities of the region since at least 2017. Christians, it noted “are spread throughout China, rather than concentrated in one region as with the Uyghurs,” so shepherding them into concentration camps is less practical than with Uyghurs. Regardless, the report noted, “the arrest and imprisonment of Christians in China stems from the same motivation.”
“Working to eradicate the house church movement, the government regularly arrests or harasses church members and leaders, sometimes holding them incommunicado for years,” it continued. “In some cases, the government has removed children from families that are part of unregistered religious groups, presumably to indoctrinate them in communist ideology and to prevent them from adopting their parents’ faith.”
The Chinese “house church” movement is a group believed to include millions of Christians who refuse to worship at communist-controlled legal churches, where the teachings of Jesus are almost entirely absent. Instead, they convene at home to pray and study the Bible, which is illegal. To contain the house church movement, China uses its pervasive, high-tech citizen surveillance network to target and often imprison worshippers.
“The CCP uses the data captured by this system to track and control those it deems a danger to the state,” ICC noted in its report. “This includes anybody associated with the unregistered house church movement and anyone else wanting to practice religion outside the confines of the state-run institutions.”
“China leads the world in the surveillance of its citizens,” the report continued.” While the full extent of its surveillance apparatus is likely unknown, research has shown that it operates a system that aims to track every citizen’s movement to gain insight into their loyalty to the CCP.”
“From mundane details, like what a person wears, to larger observations, like who they associate with, the system works to track and understand each citizen’s loyalty,” it noted.
Another institution that ICC identified as part of China’s apparatus to repress religious sentiments is the “China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS).” China has faced decades of accusations of using political prisoners as fodder for harvesting organs, killing them by cutting their organs out while alive and selling them around the world. A 2022 study by the Australian National University (ANU) accused China, citing extensive government data, of “execution by heart removal,” killing political prisoners with the intent to harvest their organs for sale.
“Quietly created in 2011, COTRS is an insidious tool for religious repression in China,” ICC noted in its report this week. “Its mandate is to kill and harvest organs from members of certain unfavored groups, including members of religious groups that the government would like to eliminate.”
Chinese persecution methods against Christians are used around the world. The ICC report noted in particular that China aids North Korea, one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a Christian, in hunting down and erasing Christians. Outside of the region, the ICC Global Persecution Index noted that China plays a role in Eritrea and Nicaragua.
“A Christian-majority nation, persecution in Eritrea is largely driven by political extremism. Ideologically, Eritrea follows many of the patterns seen in Communist China,” the study observed. “President Afwerki even traveled to China in the 1960s to study Maoism, returning inspired and ready to implement Maoist policies in his country.”
“Eritrea remains close to China to this day, particularly since the rise of Xi Jinping, whose leadership style is strikingly similar to Mao’s,” the study continued. “those who dare cross the government are swiftly punished, with many Christians and other persons of conscience thrown in prison for standing by their faith in the face of government persecution. Survivors of these prisons report regular beatings, severe torture, and degrading conditions in the overcrowded facilities.”
Like Eritrea, Nicaragua is a Christian-majority country run by a brutal communist dictatorship. Tyrant Daniel Ortega has significantly increased his persecution of Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, since the 2018 wave of anti-communist protests that ended with deadly regime repression. The Global Persecution Index documented Ortega using surveillance “strikingly like that imposed by China on its religious communities,” including government intimidation and monitoring of Catholic churches.
“Nicaragua keeps a close relationship with China, which it sees as an important ally in the face of increasing sanctions from the West and a struggling economy,” it reported.
Courtesy Smoking Mirrors
It is a totalitarian communist nation which is a prodigy of the Rothschild and Rockefeller dynasties. If our nations in the West had any decency left in them they would simply cut off all trade with the nation. But there is none because we are ruled by the same group of dissolute grasping monsters.
Christianity & Communism: two Jew created ideologies–both devised to subjugate gentiles to Jewish mind control & tyranny.
“Never forget, Jesus & Marx were Jews. Jews will ruin the country.” –Nico X
A.A.
Christianity is a foreign religion to Europeans and the Chinese alike.
So why should a white man care if Asian nations want to steer their people into practicing their native religion of Taoism (which is a pretty good religion).
White people have to stop caring about what is going on in the yellow mans minds and lands and start working on correcting the problems in their own nations. And from the looks of European and American churches, they hold responsibility for leading their nations to ruin. For example, look at how the Pope welcomes migrants into Europe! The bible taught him that.
Focus on that white people. Getting Asians to follow a Jewish religion from the middle east is a really odd behavior and weird. It’s not our zoo, they’re not our monkeys. I would argue that Christianity itself promotes this mental illness because the Jew Jesus taught to go around the world spreading the gospel.
Talk about globalism, Christianity is globalism! And so stupid Christians run around the world, feeling obliged to save the souls of the heathens, caring what people of color think, and if they welcome the Jew Jesus into their hearts. Talk about mental illness!
What a pain in the ass these Christians are.
Who cares. Jewish techno-Communism replaces Jewish medieval Christianity for the monkey headed chinks. Don’t you know, the Semitic-Jew brainwashing changes in accordance with technology.
this is more proof of the truth of the bible. Jesus said this would happen.
An Energy firm breaks into widower’s home to inspect smart meter
Story by Rory Fleming
An energy company broke into a widower’s home to inspect his smart meter after the firm’s AI software wrongly suggested the device had been tampered with.
Alan Knight, 67, from Waterlooville in Hampshire, thought he had been ‘burgled’ when he arrived home to find E.ON engineers had entered his home with the help of a locksmith. The firm had taken action after its systems suggested the grandfather’s smart meter cover might have been removed and sent engineers round to his house.
But no issues were found, with E.ON later apologising to Mr Knight, adding that their AI software ‘needs further work’.
This is beleived to be a bunch of pies
Left livid by the break-in, Mr Knight claimed the company’s actions were equivalent to using ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’ and typical now on communist Britain under Starmer
He said: ‘That’s the thing, they break into my house and how does anybody feel? I said it’s almost like a burglary. It’s like a burglary, except they didn’t steal.
@Paul
Wow, your anti christian spiel displays a sad ignorance of who Jesus Christ (our common english translation) really is.
For a start Jesus made it clear what he thought of those whom the modern bible calls jews. Few christians today study into all that so we have ignorance in abundance throughout christianity which is a major reason for the power that some modern jews wield.
You call Taoism a ‘pretty good religion’. The point here is that a religion is good only if it is truth through and through.
Despite your belief in christianity being stupid and associated with mental illness evidence of history shows that by simply accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ and turning from sinful(selfish) living, not only have lives been restored to mental health but true peace has often been brought between personal or even tribal relationships.
If christians are willing to die rather than renounce their faith then perhaps they have something worth taking note of. There have been plenty of examples of non believers changing their mind on the death bed. That’s when we have to face reality.
I have always struggled to find the passage in the bible where we are to ask Jesus into our hearts. Rather we are told to repent and be baptised.
Volumes can be written and have been of corruption within the churches which is often used to try and prove that Christ was a fake etc. Now suppose a man has children and some of the children grow up and do bad things. Does that mean the man does not exist? So it is with the living God. Many of those who call themselves christians do bad things but God is alive.
Christ haters not only abound & control the people of China & Nicaragua, they abound & spew here too.
The trouble is, all you christians don’t actually follow the teachings of christ do you? You’re all jews, all sitting in great big houses while thousands starve and freeze to death on the streets all around you. Remember your messiah giving away the coat he was given to the nearest beggar? All religion is alie in the end, simply because none of you are good, none of you actually worship anyone and you’re all greeedy abusive jews living off the lives of the people you yourselves drove into poverty.
dew,
You speak in utter ignorance. I challenge you to read the first books of the New Testament, the Gospels.
After completing this reading assignment, report back here to let us know if you noticed the contradictions with the words of your posting.
Christ was a Judean, not a Jew (a made-up word). He was and is the chief opponent of Jewdaism, and His Word is not a lie.
Nothing that the Christians themselves didn’t do back only a few hundred years ago, eh?
Not that the Han Chinese are any better.