The Chinese Communist Party has largely outlawed discussion of Christmas and decorations in public to mark the holiday.
Xi’s regime justifies the persecution by branding it “Sinicization,” or the practice of bringing Christianity in harmony with Chinese culture. Communism is an offshoot of Marxist thought originating in western Europe — which the Chinese government has also stated needs significant “Sinicization” to succeed.
Chinese Catholics attend a mass on Holy Saturday, part of Easter celebrations at Beijing’s government sanctioned South Cathedral on March 31, 2018. , multiple local governments in some of the nation’s most populous provinces issued edicts banning Christmas decorations in 2018 that have persisted through this year and show no signs of being softened. Universities also banned “celebrating or talking about Christmas on social media.
The exceptions are the government entities in charge of controlling Christianity. China has five legal religions – Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, and Protestant Christianity – all of which are governed by Party officials. The Chinese Catholic Church is divorced from the Vatican and run by “clergy” chosen by the Communist Party. The Three-Self Patriotic Church, the official name of the Protestant entity, largely exists to venerate the Communist Party, as well.
The leaders of the Three-Self Church honored Jiang in November as a “great Marxist we all love and miss,” according to the anti-communist newspaper . The regime church reportedly ordered Christians to specifically praise Jiang for the “sinicization of Christianity.”
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