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  • Authorities Remove the First Commandment
    A digital rendition of the vandalized display. - Photo: Bob Fu
    A digital rendition of the vandalized display.
    Photo: Bob Fu

    While much of the opposition in China is aimed at the country's unregistered churches, the efforts of the government to impose allegiance to the state affects all Christians. The legally registered Three-Self Churches have faced orders to tear down their crosses. They have been forced to instead display the state flag and a photo of President Xi Jinping at the front of their churches. "Core socialist values" are to be integrated into the services as doctrine.