- China's Communist Partyis expanding its crackdown

against Christians in cyberspace.

International Christian Concern reports

Christian accounts have been blocked

on the popular online program WeChat

and Bible apps have been removedfrom the China app store.

On this week's episodeof "The Global Lane,"

ChinaAid President Bob Fusays that action proves

the party is determined to erase

and destroy the Chinese church.

- With the so-calledpandemic, of course, excuses,

now the Christian churches,including both the official

government sanctions churches

and the independent house churches,

they were all not allowed to operate

even in the virtual setting.

- That's amazing.

It's not just shuttingthe doors of buildings,

but also shutting doors online.

So let's go a little broader now, Bob.

What did ChinaAid find after examining

Chinese governmentactions against Christians

and other people of faith during 2020?

- ChinaAid has found withour in-depth research

that in 2020 the persecutionagainst the Christian churches,

against human rights lawyers,

both in the government sanctions church

and the house churches have reached really

to the worst level that we have not seen

since the cultural revolution in 1960s.

I mean, this is the third year

of the Communist Party'sso-called "sinicization campaign,"

which means anything thatis found not compatible

with the President Xi's ideology,

communism, socialism,is going to be regarded

as a enemy of the state ideology.

And we have seen even the church members

who are organizing prayer meetings online

have been targeted with criminal

and administrative detentionjust in the past few days.

The largest house church in Beijing,

the Beijing Zion Church,have two of their pastors

being kidnapped and even sentenced

to 10 days administrative detention.

And we have seen, of course,

under this sinicization campaign,

pastors receive four-and-a-halfyears imprisonment

for refusing to put theCommunist Party's posters,

propaganda in their church building,

for refusing to put CommunistParty's national flag

at their parking lot.

Of course, we have seen Pastor Wang Yi,

who was sentenced tonine years imprisonment

for preaching a sermon pleading

for President Xi to suspend his crackdown,

asking him to repent, sothat he can get salvation.

That is 10 years, I mean,nine years imprisonment.

- And part of that,Bob, I know we've talked

in the past about facialrecognition software,

social credit scoring,people being denied jobs,

promotions if they have low scores.

They're not consideredto be good communists.

They don't have favor.

So how is that scoringeffecting Christians or people

who are not part of thegovernment-approved,

government-controlled church?

- Yes, 2020 marked really the first year,

I think, it's the whole called national,

the digital authoritarianism rule

with literally 2.6 billionfacial recognition cameras

has been installed all over China,

which means every Chinese will have

two face recognitioncameras are following them.

The so-called "social credit score"

had been also instatedwith the big data plan.

If you are a Christian,if you are especially

a Christian pastor orthe house church leader,

or anyone who has a religiousfaith that is not compatible

with communism willguaranteed have a lower score,

which means you may be banned

from even buying a trainticket or air flight tickets.

Which means you couldn't get a promotion,

which means your family members cannot

join the civil servanttest or join the military.

So you are regarded absolutely as second

or third class citizen.

- A lot of Americans areafraid that may come here,

with vaccine passports and so forth.

So finally, Bob, on this program

and other CBN newsprograms, we've reported for

some time now about theChinese Communist Party's

persecution of the ethnic Uighurs.

Many of our viewers don't realize

that not all Uighurs are Muslim.

There are quite a few Uighur Christians.

Tell us about them, and do theysuffer the same oppression?

- Yes, you're right, Gary.

The Uighur Christians and Uighur Muslims

and even the other minorities like Kazakhs

have been suffering thegenocide as the Secretary,

former Secretary Pompeo designated.

I mean, between one tothree million of them

are still in the concentration camp.

ChinaAid just rescued a Kazakh family.

The mother suffered at least 16 months

in the concentration camp.

She herself was abused.

And also she was a witness, eyewitness,

seeing systematic governmentorganized forced prostitution.

I mean, how can we withgood conscience deal

with a government committingsuch a grave genocide

and a crime against humanity

and yet we're still treatingthis as business as usual,

like these Americancompanies are doing in China?

So it's time to have a wake up call.

- And for more stories likethis and important trends

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