Explosion of Christianity in China Has Government Worried

 This article will go well with my previous article.

Fear not little children!  God has this China thing all under control.  Jesus is coming and He will sit on David's throne and even the gates of hell will not overcome all these plans.

As Christianity rapidly grows in China, Chinese president Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are clamping down, fearing that the size of the Christian church may eventually force them to share power.

The size of the Church in China is set to rise impressively in the coming decades. Up 16 million from just a decade ago, if it continues to grow at its current pace (between 7 and 8 percent each year), it may reach 300 million people by 2030 - creating a collective people big enough to challenge Xi's government.

However, as the number of Christians in the country grows, so does the level of pressure from the government to conform. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping came to power, the government has increasingly sought to tighten its grip on religious groups.

The Communist Party relies strongly on Chinese cultural identity to stay in power, and works hard to make sure nothing in the country is a threat to the absolute authority of the Party. In just three years, the country has risen 26 places on the Open Doors persecution list, reflecting the intensity of the increasing oppression.

Dr Ron Boyd-MacMillan, director of Strategic Research at Open Doors said "We think the evidence as to why the Chinese Church is so targeted, is that the leaders are scared of the size of the Church, and the growth of the Church". 

"And, you know, the Chinese leadership, they really do long term planning, I mean, their economic plan goes to 2049, so this bothers them. Because I think if the Church continues to grow like that, then they'll have to share power," Dr Boyd-MacMillan added.

China's "sinicization campaign" was introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2015 and seeks to bring religion under the official atheist party's absolute control and into line with Chinese culture.  According to a five-year plan to sinicize Protestant churches released by the Chinese religious authorities, efforts to make the faith more 'Chinese' include a rewrite of the New Testament using Buddhist scripture and Confucian teachings to champion socialist ideals.

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