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China Continues Efforts to Erase Christianity from Within  

9/13/2024 China (International Christian Concern) — For decades, China’s ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has tried to control and restrain Christianity within its borders. Its ultimate hope is to see the faith disappear from China altogether.  In 1982, the CCP released its position statement on religion, which asserts that, over the long haul, socialism will eventually take the place of religion.  “Only after the gradual development … of a socialist civilization, with its own ma