{"id":1371059,"date":"2022-03-11T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371059"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:05:57","slug":"china-enacts-law-banning-most-online-christian-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-enacts-law-banning-most-online-christian-content\/","title":{"rendered":"China Enacts Law Banning Most Online Christian Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-enacts-law-banning-most-online-christian-content%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has activated measures to drastically restrict the availability of Christian content on the internet, Open Doors reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, China\u2019s State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2021\/december-web-only\/chinese-christian-internet-mission-wechat-sara-religion-ban.html\">announced<\/a> its upcoming \u201cMeasures for the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services,\u201d a series of regulations designed to eliminate any online religious message that fails to conform to the principles of the CCP.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Without express government permission, no organization or individual \u201cshall preach on the Internet, carry out religious education and training, publish sermon content, forward or link to related content, organize and conduct religious activities on the Internet, or live broadcast or post recorded videos of religious rituals,\u201d the CCP declared at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The new measures went into force on March 1 and the effects are already being felt by Christians throughout China, <a href=\"https:\/\/opendoorsyouth.org\/news\/china-new-laws-ban-majority-of-christian-content-online\/\">reported<\/a> Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Online Christian ministry has been restricted to CCP-approved groups with special permits, which are only issued to state-controlled religious institutions, such as the Three Self Patriotic Movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The CCP has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/page\/file\/1068681\/download\">approved<\/a> the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and the Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Catholic Church in China, for example, but not the underground Catholic Church faithful to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the requirement of a special permit to post religious content, even on social media, the CCP has also asserted its right to review all content to make sure it reflects and supports China\u2019s Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that is posted \u201chas to fit within the social harmony, the progress of society. These things are pretty typical within the communist regime. It especially restricts the house churches,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/chvnradio.com\/articles\/china-further-restricts-religious-content-on-internet\">stated<\/a> Kurt Rovenstine of the Bibles for China group.<\/p>\n<p><em>China Christian Daily<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/chinachristiandaily.com\/news\/china\/2022-03-11\/china-s-provinces-successively-issues-notices-on-licensing-internet-religious-iinformation-services_11256\">reported<\/a> Friday that Chinese provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, and Anhui have begun issuing notices on the licensing of internet religious information services, which involves the training and hiring of numerous \u201cInternet religious information examiners,\u201d who will comb through religious content to verify its conformity with CCP ideology.<\/p>\n<p>During the long lockdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese Christians got used to conducting meetings and worship services online, but these practices will now be severely curtailed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Over the last two years, \u201conline church meetings have become the new normal,\u201d Open Doors noted, citing an anonymous Chinese Christian. \u201cThis new law now brings the church\u2019s extensive use of the internet for evangelism and spiritual nourishment to a halt. Consequently, Christians will be cut off from access to online spiritual resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christians have already begun abandoning religious chat groups and deleting religious content from their social media profiles to avoid unwanted attention from officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already observed that in our area, online meetings with a large number participating have \u2018disappeared\u2019,\u201d Open Doors added, citing a Christian leader in southern China. \u201cSo far, we have been able to hold small online gatherings, with a few church members attending each time. We will continue our meetings online, wherever there is space. We will play it by ear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Christians are also being urged to collect and preserve as many relevant spiritual resources as possible, since they will soon be unavailable online.<\/p>\n<p>Open Doors noted that Christian persecution has been intensifying by the year in China under the rule of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. In just four years, China has leapt from number 43 on the group World Watch List to number 17, a ranking that reflects tightening restrictions on Christian practice in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long seen religion as a potential threat,\u201d declared David Landrum, Director of Advocacy for Open Doors UK &#038; Ireland. \u201cWhere it can\u2019t shut religion down, it has tried to contain it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, we have seen some state-approved churches install facial recognition technology, close and destroy churches and rewrite passages of the Bible for educational materials,\u201d Landrum added. \u201cThey fear that Christians have another loyalty than to the CCP, and they are correct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has activated measures to drastically restrict the availability of Christian content on the internet, Open Doors reported this week. 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