Concern in Beijing about the growing influence of Christianity triggered a recent escalation of repression against Christians in China’s Henan province, according to a leading Hong Kong academic.
The recent crackdown on various Catholic and Protestant communities was the result of more than two years of organization and preparation at provincial, city and country level through the Chinese Communist Party’s increasingly powerful United Front Work Department, Professor Ying Fuk-tsang, director of the Divinity School at the Chinese University of Hong Kong told ucanews.com.
