Hong Kong’s wide-ranging crackdown on all forms of social protest is now being felt by churches, a backbone of the city’s once vibrant activism, and its religious spaces are now being brought under state control much the way they are in the rest of China.
several senior Hong Kong clergymen on President Xi Jinping’s views on religion, under the supervision of Beijing’s Hong Kong Liaison Office and China’s religious bureau.
“Setting up a religious committee could be a convenient way to control the churches,” said Hung, one of the pastors who fled the country. “The authorities could strip away their status as a registered church if they disobey.” John Chan, assistant professor at the Alliance Bible Seminary, noted that pastors have ceased to address politics in their sermons, whether online or in person. He said churches are devising alternative plans to operate, changing “the whole ecosystem,” so that “the eggs will not all topple at once.
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