The Chinese government is destroying crosses, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith in a crackdown on religious congregations across China that’s intensifying, according to Fox news.

The persecution of Christians in China is not new since Christians and other religious groups in China have been persecuted since 2012 according to the Freedom House watchdog group, Fox News reported.

But experts and activists say the Chinese government is now waging the most severe suppression of Christianity the country has ever seen.

The escalating anti-Christian campaign coincides with President Xi Jinping recent consolidation of power that made him the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, the notorious communist leader responsible for millions of deaths.

President Xi Jinping introduced a program to “Sinicise” all religious practice, insisting that it must be “Chinese in orientation”. The government must “provide active guidance to religions so that they can adapt themselves to socialist society”, he said.

A third of all religious believers in China who belong to a faith group were found to face “high” to “very high” levels of persecution, which ranges from bureaucratic harassment and economic exploitation to harsh prison terms and even violence, the report said.

Activists in China have reported piles of burning bibles and also forms declaring that the signatories had rejected their faith. The authorities allegedly forced the believers to sign the forms or risk being expelled from school or losing welfare benefits.

A Christian Pastor in one city whose name was not identified out of fear of retaliation by the authorities, reportedly confirmed that crosses, bibles and furniture were burned during a raid on his church.

According to Chinese laws, religious believers are allowed to worship only in government-sanctioned congregations. But many millions of Christians belong to underground or house churches that ignore government regulations.

But with a recent deal between the Roman Church Vatican and the godless Chinese communist government, together they will collaborate to jointly form churches approved by the government that have bishops who are also approved by the government.

With this transfer of authority over all religion in China to the Communist Party, they are making it unmistakably clear that this deal with the Vatican is expected to give them even more control as they push Chinese Christians into these government approved and controlled Vatican churches.

And this Vatican-Chinese, church-state, political-religious deal is the foretold template of a government-religion which is the very model of the Antichrist world government foretold by the Revelation prophecies of the Bible, where the Antichrist world government is supported by the False Prophet of a world-wide religion (Revelation 13).

But in the persecution, China has been experiencing extraordinary revival that is a Last Days work of God, with some predicting that at the current pace the country could in the near future have the world’s largest Christian population.

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