Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments while burning their skin.
In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden sticks, throwing one priest into a fire pit after he collapsed in pain. They beat one nun to death after she refused to stomp on a statue of the Virgin Mary.
One Catholic priest was buried alive in Beijing after declining to give up his faith.
Total Control
Belief in a higher power is anathema to the atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that for 100 years has sought to command absolute loyalty and control over its members and the Chinese people.
“They just cannot handle an allegiance other than to the state,” Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, told The Epoch Times.
As a result, successive Party leaders have launched campaign after campaign to crush and control people of faith in China.
- ‘Zero-Tolerance Policy’…
- ‘Sinicizing’ Churches…
- ‘Each Day the Party Is Becoming Bolder’…
- ‘A Real Weakness’…
Read full story here: Replacing God: The CCP’s Century-Long War Against Faith