{"id":26717,"date":"2026-07-17T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26717"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:20:50","slug":"chinese-communists-step-up-persecution-of-underground-church-and-its-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/chinese-communists-step-up-persecution-of-underground-church-and-its-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Communists Step Up Persecution of Underground Church and Its Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to turn up the heat on underground churches and is trying to stamp out all authentic faith among Catholics in China, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>While the CCP just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christiannewsalerts.com\/underground-church-pastor-ezra-jin-freed-from-chinese-prison-after-trump-raised-case-with-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-pasted=\"true\">released<\/a>\u00a0Zion Church pastor Ezra Jin as a show of caring about\u00a0<a title=\"This Ascension Day, Christians Are Being Persecuted in China \u2014 and Trump Can Stand for Them\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2026\/05\/14\/this-ascension-day-christians-are-persecuted-in-china-and-trump-can-stand-for-them-n4952875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump\u2019s comments on Christian persecution<\/a>, that doesn\u2019t mean domestic persecution in China is not intensifying. Steven W. Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute and author of\u00a0<em>The Devil and Communist China<\/em>, particularly highlighted the regime\u00a0<a title=\"Catholicism\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tags\/catholicism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign to crush Catholicism<\/a>\u00a0in a July 15 press release that the institute shared with PJ Media. And he paints a graphic picture of modern-day tyrannical oppression for those who profess Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/catherinesalgado\/2026\/07\/15\/chinese-communists-step-up-persecution-of-underground-church-priests-n4955088\">pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to turn up the heat on underground churches and is trying to stamp out all authentic faith among Catholics in China, according to a new analysis. While the CCP just\u00a0released\u00a0Zion Church pastor Ezra Jin as a show of caring about\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s comments on Christian persecution, that doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/chinese-communists-step-up-persecution-of-underground-church-and-its-priests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Communists Step Up Persecution of Underground Church and Its Priests<\/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-26717","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-6WV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717","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=26717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26718,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions\/26718"}],"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=26717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}