ICC Note:
Embracing their atheist roots, the Chinese Communist Party persists with persecuting both Catholic and Protestant congregations in the Northwestern Region of Xinjiang. Underground churches are under heavy surveillance, as the Communist Party disrupts unofficial services in the name of “anti-terrorism.”  An anonymous church member is quoted saying: “We don’t dare gather for worship now… The police are saying it’s part of terrorism prevention in Xinjiang and that they won’t allow gatherings of even a few people.”
03/02/2017 China (Christian Today) – Another crackdown on Christians in China is being reported. Radio Free Asia says both Catholic and Protestant congregations are being targeted in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Underground churches are being put under the spotlight by the state. ‘The ruling Chinese Communist Party, which embraces atheism, has stepped up controls over any form of religious practice among its citizens in recent years,’ says the report, ‘putting increasing pressure on faith groups to join the Protestant Three Self Patriotic Association or the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which has no ties with the Vatican.’
The attempts to disrupt unofficial churches are apparently being made in the name of ‘anti-terrorism’.
An anonymous church member is quoted saying: ‘We don’t dare gather for worship now… The police are saying it’s part of terrorism prevention in Xinjiang and that they won’t allow gatherings of even a few people.’
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