[Today’s Prayer] “Chinese religions should place President Xi Jinping at the center of their teachings and activities.”

Religious leaders in China were recently told at a seminar to place President Xi Jinping and his ideas at the center of their teachings and sermons.

According to Bitter Winter, a media outlet that covers religious freedom in China, at a seminar held for religious representatives and officials on June 26, Xi Tai-feng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, gave a keynote speech and told attendees that religious leaders should support Xi Jinping's He emphasized that ‘two establishments’ and ‘two guarantees’ should be placed at the center of all activities.

The meeting included top leaders of China's five major recognized religions (Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam, and Taoism), the Ministry of Education, the State Council, the United Front Work Corps, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Central Socialist Academy, and Tibetan Studies in China. It was reported that high-ranking representatives of the Center, provinces and autonomous regions across the country, and the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China were convened.

According to this, the 'two establishments' are to establish President Xi Jinping as the core of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the core position of the entire Chinese Communist Party, and to establish the leading position of Xi Jinping's China-specific socialist thought for a new era. The 'two guarantees' are to guarantee Xi Jinping's status as the core of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the entire Communist Party of China, and to guarantee the centralized and unified authority of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Bitterwinter said, “Two establishments and two guarantees essentially mean the same thing, simplifying the idea. “You must truly believe what Xi Jinping and the Central Committee say is the truth, and now we are being told that churches and religious groups must preach that content every week,” he said.

He continued, “President Xi, who is also the head of the intelligence agency of the United Front Work Department, goes beyond the general call to follow Marxism and the Chinese Communist Party,” adding, “This is literally everywhere in China and is the core of all political propaganda.” . “This formula did not exist before and was not applied to other Chinese Communist Party leaders.”

In addition, “Xi Jinping emphasized to the attendees that the Sinicization of religion is the only way to actively guide religion to adapt to socialist society,” he said. “‘Sinicization’ does not mean adapting religion to Chinese culture and traditions, but the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. “It is to subordinate to.”

It is reported that officials of the United Front Department in charge of religious affairs and leaders of the government-controlled Three-Self Church later held the 'Chinese Christian Religious Strict Governance Implementation Exchange Conference' in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province from June 27 to 28 and delivered keynote speeches.

“The strict governance of religion is part of ‘sinicization,’ which means that preachers and sermons must be strictly controlled,” Bitterwinter said. “The theme of the conference’s conclusion was that the leaders of the Three-Self Church should pursue ‘comprehensive and strict governance of religion.’ “It was either not effective enough or insufficiently resourced to implement.”

He added, “Participants were told that they must work to improve their political stance and deepen their ideological understanding, while receiving direct supervision from the United Front Work Department.”

Source: News

Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good. Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods! Therefore I will teach them—this time I will teach them my power and might Then they will know that my name is the Lord.” (Jeremiah 16: 19-21)

God, we hear that religions in China have been instructed to put President Xi Jinping and his ideas at the center of their teaching and preaching.

As the church cannot escape this situation, we pray that every exalted idol that distorts the true gospel of the cross of Christ will be destroyed.

May the land of China and all the nations know that God alone is God.

God! Stretch your great hand, O God, so that the majesty, the hosts, the greatness and awesome of God, may appear in the midst of the earth.

We declare that no one can serve as their god or anything that is not of God! Raise up your children as a holy flock that does not follow the things of men, but the things of God.