{"id":25721,"date":"2025-04-25T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25721"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:21:05","slug":"china-expels-missionaries-treating-christianity-as-existential-threat-to-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/china-expels-missionaries-treating-christianity-as-existential-threat-to-totalitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"China Expels Missionaries, Treating Christianity As Existential Threat To Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is significant for Christians worldwide, including myself, as we commemorate Jesus Christ\u2019s death and sacrifice on Good Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has announced new regulations that will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/08\/china-moves-to-formally-end-christian-missionary-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severely restrict<\/a>\u00a0foreign missionaries in China starting May 1. Citing the need to combat \u201cextremism\u201d and protect national security, these measures threaten religious freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sara.gov.cn\/static\/content\/ywdt\/qtyw\/2025-04-01\/1356550603266883584.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new regulation<\/a>, foreign missionaries must obtain government approval for lectures, sermons, and group activities, facing a burdensome application process that details the date, time, location, and attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/21\/china-expels-missionaries-treating-christianity-as-existential-threat-to-totalitarianism\/\">thefederalist.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is significant for Christians worldwide, including myself, as we commemorate Jesus Christ\u2019s death and sacrifice on Good Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has announced new regulations that will\u00a0severely restrict\u00a0foreign missionaries in China starting May 1. Citing the need to combat \u201cextremism\u201d and protect national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/china-expels-missionaries-treating-christianity-as-existential-threat-to-totalitarianism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China Expels Missionaries, Treating Christianity As Existential Threat To Totalitarianism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6GR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25722,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721\/revisions\/25722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}