The current First Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party is particularly hostile towards Christians.

After being named General-Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping has introduced anti-Christian policies, including the obligation for doctors and teachers to renounce faith in God, informed Jonathan Liu, a former Pastor of the government Three-Self Church.

He does not like Christians, Pastor Liu stated, commenting on Secretary Xi. Chinese Communist Party perceives Christian believers as representatives of foreign hostile forces in the country, he emphasised during the interview with Open Doors.

Former Pastor of a government-sanctioned church, who also became later a leader of the Chinese underground the home church, said that Party introduced new laws and regulations to make it impossible to attend the church.

Chinese Communist Party assaulted the meager individual freedoms of Christian believers. Everyone must show their ID and give a phone number before attending any church.

The Communist Party forces doctors and teachers to renounce the faith and abandon Christianity.

For some aged persons, it is an obligation to give up faith to qualify for the subsistence allowance.

For some aged persons, it is an obligation to give up faith to qualify for the subsistence allowance.

At least some parents are also being targeted to stop being Christians if they want their children to be educated. I have heard some young couples were forced to stop attending church. Because if they would not do it, their children could not go to the school, Pastor Liu stated.



Children and young adults under 18 years old banned from church

The Party has also intensified a program of atheisation of children that is educating them in the atheistic spirit.

The CCP sponsors the atheistic education course at school, which portrays Christians as invaders, Pastor Liu told in an interview with The Owner. Chinese Churches are banned from running Sunday Schools and Christian summer camps, he stated. He also added that at some churches, Communists stand at the door preventing children and young adults younger than 18 years old from entering the church.

Since 2012 the regime of Xi Jinping there has been an emphasis on ideology reminiscent of the Mao and Stalin era
infiltrated by the militant atheism

Pastor Liu, who himself experienced persecution, emphasised that the Communist regime monitors teaching in the government-sanctioned churches, and the clergy are political activists loyal to the Chinese Communist Party. He said that in 2015 Chinese police wanted to investigate him since the regime suspected that he was a criminal who wanted to overthrow the government because he has protested against the CCP.



Militant atheisation under Xi Jinping's regime

Before he left China, the Communist police harassed him after he published in social media photos of the crosses destroyed by the Chinese Communist Party's activists.

Since its foundation, the Chinese Communist Party was unfriendly towards religion, but the 1960s was a period of overt antagonism to all forms of religion. According to some historians, this hostility relaxed with the economic reforms introduced in 1979. But Christians were a significant group among the prisoners of Chinese concentration camps called Laogai. Those out of prison suffered social and political harassment.

In the early 1990s, Chinese Communists regime units such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Public Security Bureau began initial efforts to track cults, that included the underground Christian churches. And since 2012 the regime of Xi Jinping has moved in a more traditional direction, with an emphasis on ideology reminiscent of the Mao and Stalin era infiltrated by the militant atheisation.