In recent years, the Chinese government has intensified its persecution of religious minority groups, reaching a new peak in 2024. The Ministry of Public Security of China has publicly celebrated its crackdown on groups labeled as xie jiao on social media and state-controlled platforms, labeling independent religious groups such as Christian house churches as threats. “Xie jiao” is translated by the Chinese government itself in its English-language documents as “evil cults,” but in fact is a label used since the Middle Ages meaning “organizations spreading heterodox teachings.”
According to an article published by the Ministry of Public Security of the
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