By Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, April 13: The Chinese Communist Party’s new 2023 “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues” will make CCP propaganda at all places of worship mandatory, according to Bitter Winter. The revised provisions imposes CCP propaganda to be regulated at all places of worship, specifically targeting the ethnic minority regions such as Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia.
The new regulation is much stricter that the previous regulation drafted in 2005 “Regulations for the Establishment, Approval, and Registration of Religious Activity Venue”.
The new regulations on religion states that religious activities to operate legally with an emphasis on “each place of worship should be an active agency of CCP propaganda and supports the leadership of the CCP, support the socialist system carries out an in-depth implementation of XI Jinping thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, abides by the Constitution, laws, regulations, rules and relevant provisions of the management of religious affairs, practices the core values of socialism, adheres to the direction of Sinicisation of religion.”
The new regulations impose “the use of the national (Han Chinese) language and script, promote national unity and progress, ad guide religious citizens to enhance national consciousness, civil awareness, awareness of the rule of law, the correct distinction between ethnic customs and religious beliefs, and shall no use religion to interfere with administrative, judicial, educational and social life.”
The report states that under the 2023 regulations, priests, pastors and monks are only to be selected if they actively preach “love for the motherland and support for the leadership of the CCP and the socialist system.” The stricter draft, according to Xi Jinping, is introduced to check the risks of religion that may threaten the CCP.
