The McDonald’s Murder Remembered at the World Congress of Sociology

In 2014, China launched a massive international fake news campaign to attribute to The Church of Almighty God a homicide actually perpetrated by a different religious movement.

At the XIX World Congress of Sociology, the largest gathering of sociologists in the world, organized by the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada, a session was devoted on July 20, 2018, to “gatekeeping,” a process aimed at filtering the news so that only a part of them actually reaches the intended audience. Gatekeeping is practiced daily by mainline media, which decide what stories should actually be published and what should be killed, but in totalitarian regimes news filters are also created by official censorship and propaganda.

The Italian sociologist Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter, presented a paper on the McDonald’s murder of 2014, when members of a group labeled as a “cult” killed a woman in a McDonald’s diner in Zhaoyuan, Shandong. A massive campaign of fake news was launched by the Chinese regime after the incident, claiming that The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, was responsible for the homicide. The campaign was extremely successful and continued for years. By 2017, 20,000 media had reported that The Church of Almighty God had perpetrated the crime.

Document to Suppress The Church of Almighty God Exposed

A recently uncovered confidential document details the 2018 campaign to crack down on this persecuted Christian new religious movement in a region of Jiangsu Province.

The document, issued in April 2018 by the Public Security Bureau in a region of Jiangsu, an eastern-central coastal province of China, specifies the details of a campaign to suppress The Church of Almighty God (CAG), jointly implemented with the province’s Public Security Department. In 2018, as part of the nationwide campaign against the CAG, 1,984 Church members were arrested in Jiangsu Province, more than in any other region of China, according to the Annual Report on the Chinese Communist Government’s Persecution of The Church of Almighty God(the report has been reviewed in Bitter Winter).

Confidential Documents Expose CCP’s Plans to Persecute The Church of Almighty God Abroad

CCP collects information on CAG members who fled China, uses agents and online propaganda to harass them. Anyone opposing the persecution deemed hostile to China.

The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is the largest Chinese Christian new religious movement, which, due to its rapid growth, has been regarded as a threat to the CCP. It was included in the list of the xie jiao in 1995 and has become the most targeted and heavily persecuted religious movements in China ever since. Under the CCP’s ruthless oppression, often accompanied by torture and long-term imprisonment, some CAG members have been forced to flee overseas, but the authorities haven’t given up on persecuting them.

The Church of Almighty God | Christian Variety Show | "Police Plots" | English Short Skit

In order to eliminate religious beliefs, the atheist CCP government frequently adopts measures for surveilling Christians such as conducting stakeouts and tailing them in an attempt to make a clean sweep of them. The sketch Police Plots is about the collusion of evil CCP officers in disguise and an auxiliary officer, a donkey in a lion's skin, who carry out a stakeout to arrest Christians gathering at the home of Zhao Yuzhi. How will Zhao Yuzhi and her family deal with the Chinese police's sinister trickery? What troubles will befall them?

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Why does the Chinese Communist government wildly persecute, suppress and crack down on Almighty God and The Church of Almighty God?

The Church of Almighty God | English Christian Video "Pretenders" (Crosstalk) | Ripping Off Mask of China's "Religious Freedom"

English Christian Video "Pretenders" (Crosstalk) | Ripping Off Mask of China's "Religious Freedom"

The CCP, an atheist ruling regime, in order to completely ban religious beliefs and make China a godless country, tries every scheme, trick, and trap and uses a variety of despicable methods to arrest and persecute Christians. The crosstalk Pretenders exposes yet another means the CCP uses to arrest Christians—hiding their identity to get inside The Church of Almighty God, shows you the tactics the CCP uses to trap Christians, and rips off the mask of China's "religious freedom."

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Christian Crosstalk | "Village Lockdown" | A Christian Adventure In Preaching Gospel

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 "Village Lockdown" A Christian Adventure In Preaching Gospel. It is Heaven’s law and earth’s principle to believe in God. It is also great to pursue being a good man, walk on the right path of life and preach the gospel to let more people gain the life from God. Why did the CCP use plots and cunning schemes to strike and obstruct them? Are there some untold secrets?

The crosstalk Village Lockdown tells the harrowing tale of Christian Yang Ming being tracked by the CCP government's eyes and nearly being arrested while sharing the gospel with her aunt. The two actors provide a vivid, humorous performance showing the hardships suffered by Christians in China who preach the gospel. The CCP government's tactics for striking at and suppressing religious beliefs are sinister; their tricks are myriad and surveillance is everywhere. Even tiny villages are on high alert now, and the government's eyes watch outsiders like hawks. They conduct thorough investigations and Christians' gatherings and preaching are severely limited. But no matter how madly the CCP government suppresses them, Christians are still spreading the gospel of God's kingdom by relying on the wisdom and faith given to them by God.

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Christian videos Clip (1) - Why Does the CCP Monitor and Oppress Christians So Much?

The Chinese Constitution clearly stipulates freedom of religion, but behind the scenes, the government expends vast human and financial resources on madly suppressing religious beliefs and brutally persecuting Christians. They have not even stopped at purchasing the most advanced surveillance equipment to monitor, track, and arrest Christians. The Chinese government has stripped its citizens of their right to freedom of belief and has wantonly deprived believers of their right to subsistence. So what really is the reason and the goal behind the CCP doing all of this?

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The Church of Almighty God waters and shepherds its believers in complete accordance with the words of God in the Bible and The Word Appears in the Flesh expressed by Almighty God.

The Church of Almighty God Attracts Much Attention at Turin Interfaith Music Festival

On May 10, 2018, FAITHS IN TUNE Interfaith Music Festival got off to a great start at the Royal Club in Turin, Italy. The music festival lasted for five days and was co-sponsored by the German founding organization of FAITHS IN TUNE, COEXIST Music & Events e.Kfr, along with the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), the Osservatorio sul Pluralismo Religioso of Turin, the International Observatory of Religious Liberty of Refugees (ORLIR) and the Turin International Book Fair. FAITHS IN TUNE aims to provide a platform for people of different cultural and faith backgrounds to share their own music and to engage in mutual exchange.

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The Church of Almighty God was founded by the returned Lord Jesus personally in the last days