Churches in Henan, China, were forced by authorities to take down displays of the Ten Commandments and replace them with quotes of President Xi Jinping, according to reports in September.
Every state-registered ‘Three-Self Patriotic Movement’ church and meeting venue in the county of Luoyang, received an order to remove the biblical commandments from display as part of the authorities’ on-going campaign to ‘sinicise’ (make Chinese) Christianity.
Some churches that refused to obey were shut down and other congregations were told their members would be ‘blacklisted’, meaning the travel, education and employment options of Christians would be restricted by the authorities.
