Early Christian

Persecutions
Ringaya. Angela
Serandon, Joly Me
Sudario, Ariane Mae
Vagallon, Jamie
 The Chinese
Communist Party (CCP)
The newcomer to this list is the China Communist Party. Over
the last two years, the CCP has rapidly advanced its
persecution against China’s underground house movement,
unregistered churches and even registered churches. In the
last year, China has shuttered four large churches, has
banned anyone under 18 from church, torn down crosses
from churches, raided churches and arrested Christians,
forced churches to install facial recognition cameras, the list
goes on. China President Xi Jinping has made deliberate
moves to establish himself as a cult personality among the
Chinese people.
With the recent raid on one of China’s largest underground house churches
resulting in arrests of more than 100 Christians and reports that police now
have quotas for arrests of Christians, along with foreign trade negotiations,
China and leader Xi Jinping have been all over the headlines. Major news
outlets have increasingly reported on what is now being called a
widespread government crackdown on religion in China (including
Christians and Muslims).

The chinese communist government's treatment of ethnic minorities is in

many respects revolutionary, through a continuity from dynastic rule to the
Nationalist regime can be seen in two aspects. Firstly, government position
on minority affairs shifts along a continuum between two poles; assimilation
and self-determination. Despite the ideologies put forth and constitutional
rights promised, what has undrlain the choice along continuum at any point
in time in polotical oppurtunism. Secondly, the dialectic of ideology and
praxis happens only in the realm high level government making, and does
not involve indigenous participation, nor take into considertion.