China’s War on Faith: The Darkest Stain on Religious Freedom

Communist China carries out the destruction of churches while burning crosses together with forcing worshipers to perform rituals of bowing before CCP photographs instead of religious symbols.

The Narrative World    29-Mar-2025   
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Religious freedom endures its worst persecution at the hands of Communist China according to the 2025 annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released on March 25.
 
China’s communist government shows no restraint when attempting to suppress domestic religious fervor through its dangerous forcible "sinicization" program targeting every religious stature.
 
The Communist Party of China (CCP) transformed religious practices into battlegrounds through text reinterpretation and camp imprisonment of millions thus demonstrating their fear towards beliefs they cannot manage.
 
USCIRF evaluates religious freedom in China as reaching an all-time low during 2024 as per their recent publication.
 
The CCP’s mission?
 
The CCP has established a mission to impose its ideology across religious domains including prayers and temples as well as individual souls.
 
China actively launches total assaults against religious beliefs in addition to exercising its controlling measures.
 
Muslim Uyghurs together with Tibetan Buddhists and Christians and Hui Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners suffer most from this amoral mistreatment.
 
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The Chinese government employs modern tools such as artificial intelligence along with facial recognition systems together with mass surveillance to detect and discipline individuals who practice religion outside its established rules and policies.
 
Instead of governance China launches a brutal attack against human beings' right to practice faith.
 
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A million Uyghur Muslims face imprisonment within the CCP’s “re-education” camps which serve as detention facilities.
 
The report labels the actions as a genocide because authorities destroy mosques, enforce forced sterilization of women and separate families against their will.
 
Following this, the Communist Party transforms holy religious texts of Bible and Quran to create propaganda which serves its atheist purposes.
 
The U.S. congressman John Moolenaar made a direct statement about the Chinese government by calling it a regime which denies basic human dignity to all individuals.
 
The Falun Gong represents a peaceful spiritual group which reached 70 million practitioners in China beyond the CCP membership numbers.
 
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The Communist Party conducted a brutal and extensive crackdown against its religious group when terror spread throughout the nation in 1999.
 
Many practitioners experienced imprisonment torture and extermination as a result of the persecution.
 
The arrest of Falun Gong practitioner Xu Na for eight years in prison in 2022 came after she shared COVID-19 information with The Epoch Times.
 
According to the Falun Dafa Information Center numerous practitioners met their deaths because China considers truth compassion and tolerance immoral and hateful beliefs.
 
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Christians aren’t spared either. Pastor Kan Xiaoyong received a baseless 14-year prison sentence during January 2024 because he led his congregation.
 
Communist China carries out the destruction of churches while burning crosses together with forcing worshipers to perform rituals of bowing before CCP photographs instead of religious symbols.
 
All efforts to eliminate Tibetan culture date back to the pre-Party era as the Chinese Communist Party attacks Buddhist monks through physical violence while it dismantles monasteries and bans sacred religious texts.
“Such behavior does not qualify as governance because it represents a spiritual transgression against the nature of humanity. ”
 
China’s evil stretches beyond its borders too. The engineer Li Ping from Florida received four years imprisonment in 2024 after pleading guilty to spying for the Chinese secret police against Falun Gong members.
 
The year 2024 brought sentencing for John Chen after he attempted to destroy the dance group Shen Yun which reveals CCP atrocities.
 
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The suppression activities indicate China’s forceful measures to eliminate religious beliefs in every corner of the world.
 
The Chinese Communist Party follows this method: it seeks to eliminate everything that remains out of its reach for control. Through invasive technology spying the Chinese Communist Party combines forced imprisonment with historical deception.
 
This report demands the United States to fight back through official Chinese sanctions coupled with a prohibition on surveillance equipment and public exposure of worldwide atrocities.
 
The American politician James Lankford exposed China's propaganda about Uyghur citizens while demanding harsh scrutiny of the situation.
 
The human spirit proves stronger than China's authoritarian control since leaders believe spiritual freedom can be suppressed using concrete structures and surveillance.
 
The report from USCIRF demonstrates that China functions as the most severe violator of religious freedom that exists today.
 
China's attack on spiritual beliefs leaves lasting marks through Uyghur detention facilities together with Falun Gong mistreatment centers and suffers Tibetan cultures and destroys Christian houses of worship.
 
Therefore the world must never grant China forgiveness for its religious persecution efforts.