Beijing: China banned reality talent programmes Sept. 2 and ordered broadcasters to promote more masculine representations of men, in a wide-ranging crackdown on “immoral” pop culture Beijing believes is leading young people astray. Talent shows that put hundreds of aspiring young performers through rigorous boot camps and subject them toContinue Reading
The National Press and Publication Administration told state-run news agency Xinhua that game-playing would be only allowed between 8pm to 9pm. It also instructed gaming companies to prevent children playing outside these times. Earlier this month a state media outlet branded online games “spiritual opium”. Inspections of online gaming companiesContinue Reading
Beijing: China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature on Aug. 20 amended the Population and Family Planning Law as part of a decades-longContinue Reading
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and state security officers have prohibited a pastor from having Christian books. According to religious freedom charity China Aid, police turned up at the home of a rural minister in Linyi, Shandong Province. They demanded that he allow them to check his mobile phone. AfterContinue Reading
Washington D.C.: According to new rules which will reportedly take effect on May 1, China’s state-run Catholic Church and bishops’ conference will select, approve, and ordain episcopal candidates—with no mention of the Vatican’s involvement in the process. China’s new “Administrative Measures for Religious Clergy” will go into effect on MayContinue Reading
Beijing: For a while China’s government has signaled concern that the country’s most popular male role models are no longer strong, athletic figures like “army heroes”. Even President Xi Jinping, a well-known football enthusiast, has long been seeking to cultivate better sports stars. So last week, the education ministry issuedContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news reporter Hong Kong: Chinese officials have warned the mainland lawyers of the so-called Hong Kong 12 that their licenses to practice might be revoked. The lawyers, Lu Siwei and Ren Quanniu, were barred from representing their clients arrested last August who were forced to take government-appointed lawyers. TheContinue Reading
Persecution has been widespread across India and China even during the pandemic, but things are only likely to get worse in 2021, Release International has warned. The charity, which supports persecuted Christians worldwide, says that China has “bought the silence of the international community” through trade relations. This year hasContinue Reading
By Greg Torode Hong Kong: Senior clerics see the arrests as a sign China wants to shut the unofficial Vatican mission in Hong Kong, where the two nuns work. As Beijing tightens control of the city, the local diocese has also moved to rein in pro-democracy voices in its flock.Continue Reading
China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama, according to a top US diplomat, asserting that the Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their spiritual leader for hundreds of years. “I travelled to Dharamshala, India to speak to the Tibetan community that were assembled there in exile andContinue Reading