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China Is Tearing Down Crosses

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As part of a wider campaign to suppress religious freedom, China's government is demolishing crosses in the “Jerusalem of the East.”

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HONG KONG — Christians in China sometimes paint their crosses red to remind them of the blood shed by the faithful when Chairman Mao Zedong's shock troops tried to obliterate their faith almost 50 years ago.

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