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‘Abandon Your Faith’: China Is Forcibly Merging Churches to Curtail Christianity
China is inventing new ways to force the closure of churches as part of its crackdown on Christianity. The religious liberty watchdog Bitter Winter says four legal churches were shut down in recent months under pressure from government officials who justified the closures with questionable tactics. All four churches were part of the government-approved Three-Self movement. In February,