China replaces pictures of Jesus with Xi Jinping to escape poverty

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As every Christian know we are living in end time. The earliest example is set by the villagers of China by urging replace of religious artefacts in their homes with posters of Communist Party leader if they want to benefit from poverty-relief efforts.

Millions of Christians are impoverished in rural county of southeast China and have swapped out the posters of Jesus for portraits of President Xi Jinping as part of a local government poverty-relief programme that seeks to “transform believers in religion into believers in the party”.

China’s largest freshwater lake, Yugan county in Jiangxi province is known equally for its poverty as more than 11 percent of its 1 million residents live below the country’s official poverty line, while nearly 10 percent of its population is Christian, according to official data.

Chinese state mouthpiece links ‘superstitious’ religious practices to string of Communist Party corruption scandals, and local government redoubles its efforts to alleviate poverty, many believers have been told to take down the images of Jesus, the crosses and the gospel couplets that form the centerpieces of their homes, and hang portraits of Xi instead – a practice that hearkens back to the era of the personality cult around late chairman Mao Zedong, whose portraits were once ubiquitous in Chinese homes.

A local social media said that melted the hard ice in their [Christians’] hearts and transformed them from believing in religion to believing in the party.

The ruling Communist Party campaign our top priority to end the poverty by 2020. This step is quite crucial for China’s underground churches to crackdown.

In Yugan, the atheist party is competing for influence with Christianity, which has spread Christianity more than 40 years and estimated Christians in China now over 90 million members of the party.

A local social media account reported that in Yugan’s Huangjinbu Township, cadres visited poor Christian families to promote the local Communist party’s by saying no poverty by 2020 but other hand poverty-relief only for party member, through this companying party plan to “transformed Christian from believing in religion to believing in the party” and to complete the job more than 600 voluntary of the party are paintings poor Christian homes and replacing Jesus and other Christian Idol with 453 portraits of Xi to get rid of the religious practice.

Huangjinbu is home to about 5,000 to 6,000 Christian families, or about a third of the total, according to Qi.

Qi Yan, chairman of the Huangjinbu people’s congress and the person in charge of the township’s poverty-relief drive said the campaign had been running across the county since March. He said it focused on teaching Christian families how much the party had done to help eradicate poverty and how much concern Xi had shown for their well-being.

“Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their illnesses,” Qi said. “But we tried to tell them that getting ill is a physical thing and that the people who can really help them are the Communist Party and General Secretary Xi.”

“Many rural people are ignorant. They think God is their savior … After our cadres’ work, they’ll realize their mistakes and think: we should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help,” Qi said.

He said the township government had distributed more than 1,000 portraits of Xi, and that all of them had been hung in residents’ homes.

Qi said claims that we only asking them to shift their religious posters to other room, but keeping party kindness in their mind we require center of their living rooms so that they did not forget the party.

It was not an either-or situation, Qi said. “They still have the freedom to believe in religion, but in their minds, they should [also] trust our party.”

Under Xi, the party has tightened its grip on religious freedom throughout the country, ranging from removing crosses on Christian churches in eastern China.

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