{"id":69484,"date":"2018-03-27T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69484"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:38:38","slug":"the-tablet-chinese-state-control-over-religions-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69484","title":{"rendered":"(The Tablet) Chinese state control over religions tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ruling Communist Party has stepped up its control over all religions by closing its longstanding State Administration for Religious Affairs agency and handing its functions to the party&#8217;s United Front Work Department. The department once described by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a \u201cmagic weapon\u201d &#8211; now has daily oversight and direct control over the state-run organisations of all five official religions, including the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes seven weeks after stricter new rules on religion were introduced on 2 February&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/8795\/chinese-state-control-over-religions-tightened\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ruling Communist Party has stepped up its control over all religions by closing its longstanding State Administration for Religious Affairs agency and handing its functions to the party&#8217;s United Front Work Department. The department once described by Chinese leader<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69484\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69486,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69484\/revisions\/69486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}