(ChurchLeaders) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is forcing people who are dependent on government aid to remove Christian imagery and images of Jesus from their homes. Instead, believers must display pictures of Chairman Mao Zedong and President Xi Jinping; those who refuse are penalized by losing their welfare benefits. This is according to the religious liberty magazine and watchdog group Bitter Winter.
“All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images,” a preacher from a house church in Shanxi province told Bitter Winter. “The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus.”