CCP Is Using the Vatican to Destroy China's Underground Catholic Church

In 2018, Pope Francis signed a secret agreement with the Chinese Communist Party giving Beijing a formal role in appointing Catholic bishops in China. The full text has never been made public. The stated goal was reconciliation — uniting China's state-approved Catholic church with the underground congregations that had remained loyal to Rome for decades at great personal cost. What actually happened is documented in exhaustive detail by Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy, and the UN: Beijing took the agreement as a green light to accelerate the destruction of every Catholic community it hadn't yet absorbed. Under the deal's cover, authorities in Shaanxi province rescheduled church services to inconvenient hours to reduce attendance. A church in Henan province was shut down in December 2025 because minors had been allowed to play musical instruments inside. In September 2025, an internal document from the Central United Front Leading Group — a high-level CCP body — directed schools to "guide students to proactively report" parents who provide any home-based religious education to their children. Over the past decade, the CCP has stripped legal status from virtually every Catholic-run orphanage and disability center in China, transferring the children to state institutions. Surveillance cameras have been installed inside official churches. Clergy are forbidden from traveling abroad or collaborating with foreign churches. Six Catholic bishops remain forcibly disappeared or imprisoned — some for decades — and the Vatican has not publicly demanded their release once. Beijing has violated the agreement at least twice, appointing bishops without papal approval, and the Vatican said nothing. When Pope Francis died in April 2025, the CCP moved immediately to appoint two new bishops during the mourning period before a new pope had even been elected. Pope Leo XIV, who took office in May 2025, has been urged by Human Rights Watch to demand an urgent review of the agreement and press for the release of imprisoned clergy before the deal comes up for renewal in 2028. So far, Beijing is not worried.

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Commentary: The CCP convinced the Vatican to sign a secret deal that Beijing has violated repeatedly, used to surveil congregations, shut down orphanages, and have children report their parents for praying at home — and the Catholic Church's response has been to renew it three times and stay silent about the six bishops it can't account for. Xi Jinping got the Pope to help him destroy the underground church, and it didn't even cost him a public concession. That's not diplomacy. That's submission.

📰 https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/china-pressure-on-catholics-escalates

Additional sources: https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/28/china-pope-francis-bishops-xi-jinping-uyghurs/ | https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/12/holy-see-review-vatican-china-agreement

⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from Human Rights Watch April 2026 report, Foreign Policy, and HRW's May 2025 report to Pope Leo XIV.

CCP Beat Pets to Death in Their Own Homes While Their Owners Watch Helplessly

When the Chinese Communist Party locked down Shanghai's 25 million residents during the Zero-COVID campaign in 2021 and 2022, it sent hazmat-suited government workers door to door to enforce compliance. What those workers did to the pets left behind has been captured on home security cameras, uploaded to Weibo, and viewed hundreds of millions of times before the censors could scrub it. In November 2021, a woman identified only as Ms. Fu was sent into quarantine after contact with a COVID patient. Government workers in protective gear entered her home in Shangrao, Jiangxi province and beat her corgi, Chaofen, on the head with a metal rod. Captured on her home security camera, the dog fled into another room after the first blow. The workers followed. When they emerged, one was carrying something in a yellow plastic bag. Ms. Fu said afterward that Chaofen was dead, and that her neighbors' pets suffered the same fate. She later received anonymous threats to remove the video. In April 2022, a Shanghai corgi owner forced onto a quarantine bus with no time to arrange care released his dog outside, hoping it would survive as a stray. The dog chased the bus down the street. Video filmed by a neighboring resident showed a COVID prevention worker in full hazmat gear chase the corgi down and beat it to death with a shovel, three blows, leaving it motionless in the road. Its body was removed in a plastic bag. In Huizhou, a woman sent into isolation was told government workers would disinfect her home. Video she obtained showed two workers beating her Samoyed, Snowball, with sticks. "Snowball is like family to me," she wrote on Weibo. The hashtag "Don't treat other people's pets like animals" was viewed 230 million times before censors intervened. Officials in at least one city issued a formal order authorizing the killing of all pets belonging to COVID-positive residents. China's own National Health Commission had stated there was no evidence of humans catching COVID from pets. The CDC agreed. The science was irrelevant. China has no national animal cruelty laws — a deliberate legislative gap that made every one of these killings perfectly legal — and the government's official response to the Shangrao video was to describe the beating death of a family pet as a "non-hazardous treatment" carried out "without adequate communication."

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Commentary: The government locked you in a quarantine facility, sent workers in hazmat suits into your home, beat your dog to death with a metal rod, put it in a yellow bag, and called it a sanitation procedure. Then when the video went viral, the censors came for the video. China has no animal cruelty laws because the party that owns the legislature decided it didn't need them. That's not an oversight. That's a choice.

📰 https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/china/shanghai-corgi-death-china-covid-intl-hnk/index.html

Additional sources: NBC News — https://www.nbcnews.com | Fortune — https://fortune.com/2021/11/16/china-corgi-killing-covid-outbreak-delta-variant-pet-owners-quarantine-isolation/

📷 Image: The AFP photo by Hector Retamal of hazmat-suited COVID workers in Shanghai neighborhoods is widely published and available through AFP licensing. For free use, search Wikimedia Commons for "Shanghai COVID lockdown hazmat workers 2022" — several press-released images exist under editorial use. Alternatively the Weibo-sourced screenshots of the corgi chasing the quarantine bus have been republished by CNN and NBC and are in wide editorial circulation.

⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from CNN, NBC News, Fortune/Bloomberg, and NationalWorld reporting on documented video evidence.

CCP Is Harvesting Organs From Living Prisoners and Selling Them on Demand

For decades, wealthy patients from around the world have traveled to China for organ transplants and received them within days — sometimes hours — of arriving. In every other country on earth, patients wait years for a compatible organ. The reason Chinese hospitals can guarantee near-instant availability is that they maintain a living inventory. An independent international tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice — the lead prosecutor who convicted Slobodan Milošević for war crimes — spent twelve months reviewing testimony and evidence and concluded unanimously and beyond reasonable doubt that China has been harvesting organs from living prisoners of conscience on a massive, state-sanctioned scale for decades. The primary victims identified were Falun Gong practitioners, a peaceful spiritual movement that Beijing banned in 1999 and began systematically imprisoning. As the Uyghur detention system expanded in Xinjiang in the 2010s, investigators documented that Muslim minorities were subjected to mandatory blood typing and organ screening — the same preparation protocols used before extraction — and evidence now points to Uyghurs being killed for their organs as well. A Uyghur survivor testified before Congress on May 14, 2026 that local police told her directly that a detention center in her region had been converted into an organ extraction hospital and that the "halal organ trade is booming" — organs marketed specifically to wealthy Muslim buyers abroad who want religiously compliant transplants. Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann, who has spent two decades building the evidentiary record, estimates that between 25,000 and 50,000 Uyghurs alone are killed for their organs annually. Despite Beijing's 2015 promise to rely only on voluntary donors, researchers have demonstrated that Chinese hospitals perform many times more transplants than voluntary donation could possibly supply — and the data has been falsified. On the same morning the May 14 Congressional hearing opened, a hot mic on Tiananmen Square captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin casually discussing living to 150 through continued organ transplants. The bipartisan commission co-chair called it exactly what it was: not small talk, but a glimpse behind the curtain of a system that treats human beings as interchangeable parts.

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Commentary: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on a hot mic joking about living to 150 on harvested organs — on the same morning Congress was hearing testimony that the Chinese state kills between 25,000 and 50,000 Uyghurs a year to supply the transplant market. There is no diplomatic euphemism adequate to describe a government that runs a living organ bank stocked with imprisoned minorities. The China Tribunal called it crimes against humanity. A U.S. Congressman called it execution by extraction. Both are correct.

📰 https://www.visiontimes.com/2026/05/14/congress-holds-hearing-on-forced-organ-harvesting-on-opening-day-of-trump-xi-summit.html

Additional sources: China Tribunal final judgment (2019) — chinatribunal.com | CECC hearing record May 14, 2026 — cecc.gov | Raoul Wallenberg Centre joint statement, May 2026 — raoulwallenbergcentre.org

⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from the linked articles, the 2019 China Tribunal final judgment, bipartisan Congressional testimony, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre's May 2026 joint statement.

CCP Is Hunting Christians in the Middle of the Night

 In October 2025, Chinese security forces launched one of the most coordinated crackdowns on Christianity seen in decades. In a single overnight operation, plainclothes and uniformed police fanned out across at least seven cities — Beijing, Shanghai, and five others — simultaneously detaining nearly 30 pastors, preachers, and congregation members of Zion Church, one of China's largest unofficial Protestant congregations with roughly 5,000 members nationwide. The operation's centerpiece was the arrest of Zion's 56-year-old founder and senior pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, snatched while traveling in the southern city of Beihai. Church members describe watching the dragnet in real time, realizing from the speed and geographic reach that this was no ordinary raid — the CCP had been planning it for months. The detained were held incommunicado, with families receiving no information about their whereabouts and lawyers allowed only sporadic contact. The typical charge, applied with cynical precision: fraud. The government's logic is that since it does not recognize these pastors as legitimate clergy, collecting tithes from a congregation constitutes fraudulent solicitation. Within weeks, authorities escalated further — raiding another unofficial church in Wenzhou in December 2025, arresting approximately 100 members over five days, and surrounding the building with hundreds of armed police and bulldozers. In January 2026, they hit again, raiding the home of the current leader of Chengdu's Early Rain Covenant Church and taking him into custody. The crackdown is part of Xi Jinping's years-long "Sinicization" campaign — a program designed to remake every religion in China into an ideological arm of the Communist Party, rewriting scripture, banning unauthorized Bibles, demolishing crosses, and ensuring that Chinese Christians worship the Party first and God second.

Commentary: The CCP's approach to Christianity is simple and efficient: worship however you like, as long as what you're worshipping is us. Any congregation that insists on placing God above the General Secretary gets labeled a fraud operation, its pastors hauled away in the night, and its building surrounded by bulldozers — all perfectly legal under laws the Party wrote for exactly this purpose. It's religious freedom, Beijing-style.

📰 https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/25/china-churches-crackdown-xi-zion-jin-mingri/

⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from the linked article and corroborating reporting from Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

CCP Is Running a Slave Labor Empire in Plain Sight

 For years Beijing insisted its mass detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang was over — just a misunderstanding, some voluntary job training, a poverty alleviation program. That lie has now been shattered by the most detailed insider account ever obtained from within China's own security apparatus. Zhang Yabo, a Han Chinese police officer who served in Xinjiang from 2014 to 2023, has provided documented testimony describing what he witnessed firsthand: Uyghur detainees routinely beaten and tortured, a female detainee raped during interrogation by a colleague, deaths occurring with alarming frequency in overcrowded facilities, and armed government convoys transporting laborers to cotton fields with their identity documents confiscated so they couldn't leave. When the era of highly visible mass internment became an international embarrassment, Beijing didn't end the program — it buried it inside routine government administration. Forced labor transfers have since accelerated, reaching a record 3.4 million deployment instances in 2025, involving over three million individuals. Workers who refused transfers were subjected to coercive "thought work" sessions and explicit threats of detention. Exports from Xinjiang to the US, EU, Canada, and UK surged 465 percent between 2021 and 2025, meaning the clothes, electronics, and car parts in Western markets are increasingly built on this system. Five UN Special Rapporteurs declared in January 2026 that the severity of coercion in some cases may constitute the crimes against humanity of forcible transfer and enslavement.

Commentary: Beijing's masterstroke was realizing that the world would stop paying attention once the obvious concentration camps were out of the news cycle — so they traded barbed wire for bureaucracy, turning slavery into a line item in a five-year poverty alleviation plan. The products are still on our shelves, the profits still flow to the CCP, and the only thing that changed is that it's now much harder to photograph.

📰 https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16/china-xinjiang-uyghur-camps-repression/

📷 Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Xinjiang_Uyghur_Autonomous_Region_-_Kashgar_Prefecture_-_Kashgar_-_panoramio_%28109%29.jpg/1280px-Xinjiang_Uyghur_Autonomous_Region_-_Kashgar_Prefecture_-_Kashgar_-_panoramio_%28109%29.jpg Credit: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 — Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

⚠️ This content was researched and written with AI assistance and may be fully AI-generated. All facts are sourced from the linked article and corroborating reporting from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Foreign Policy, and UN Special Rapporteurs.

Chine Wants To Eliminate Tibet From History

Xi Jinping preparing his threats

China's Communist Party is notorious for threatening museums to pull their loaned materials if the content is not displayed "correctly". In this case, they want it labelled as with China's new name for Tibet, vice "Tibet".

I have an idea, tell them to "Fuck Off." When they demand the return of the materials say no. It would be no different than what China does all over the world. They can't be counted on to abide by agreements they made (see Hong Kong). Why should the museums. I would make a big deal out of this being a new form of art education, demonstrating the hypocrisy of China.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5132045/paris-museums-under-fire-for-changing-their-wording-describing-works-from-tibet

China - If You Believe Them You Are Deluded - #MeToo Not Allowed There

 Anyone who thinks that powerful Communist Party officials didn't sexually harass or assault with as much or more impunity as the powerful in America is on crack. The main difference between China and America is that while the powerful could, at least until recently, make you figuratively disappear from public view and fame, the Chinese Communist Party can LITERALLY make you disappear:

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/32665214/china-foreign-ministry-not-aware-situation-surrounding-tennis-player-peng-shuai

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/china/wta-ceo-peng-shuai-steve-simon-intl-hnk/index.html

UPDATE: In which I still don't believe those liars:

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/32671331/photos-missing-chinese-tennis-star-peng-shuai-posted-online

UPDATE: Still not buying it:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/sport/hrw-peng-shuai-china-sportswashing-spt-intl/index.html