First appearance on Fox: Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House of Commons China Select Committee, warned that the Chinese Communist Party is “desperate to crush religion” and uses it “as a tool to control people’s minds.” The opposite of doctrine is faith in God.” . ”
Gallagher, R-Wis., is scheduled to speak Wednesday night at the opening dinner of the National Prayer Breakfast.
Mr. Gallagher will share a story about a young graduate student from China who opposes the Chinese Communist Party. When Gallagher asked the student why he was objecting, he said, “I have faith,” according to prepared remarks obtained by Fox News Digital.
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The student told Gallagher that the Chinese Communist Party is “seriously bent on destroying faith.”
Gallagher said: “If they can eradicate our belief in something greater, life becomes nothing more than the incentives the Party can provide and the punishments it can inflict. This is the goal of the Chinese Communist Party. ” he would say.
Gallagher is expected to explain that the Chinese Communist Party has “the most powerful propaganda and censorship system in history, controlling everything that is read and said.”
“And, as this young Chinese man explained, this is why the Chinese Communist Party is so bent on crushing religion.The very concept of the individual with dignity and worth must be destroyed; “Religion is its most ardent defender,” Gallagher is believed to have recalled. .
Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) heads to a meeting of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence at the Capitol on February 7, 2023 in Washington. (Reuters/Elizabeth Franz/File photo)
Mr Gallagher is expected to mention the millions of Uyghurs and other religious minorities that the Chinese Communist Party has sent to “re-education camps”.
“The genocide against the Uighur people involves the largest internment of an ethnic and religious minority since the Holocaust,” Gallagher said.
Mr. Gallagher said Chinese President Xi Jinping would say, “As long as he and the Chinese Communist Party are playing God’s role, there is nothing wrong with the First Commandment.”
Meanwhile, Mr Gallagher is expected to claim that the Chinese Communist Party “succeeded to control the appointment of Catholic bishops through a secret 2018 agreement with the Pope, which is effectively tantamount to appointing bishops.” There is.
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“Members of the avowed atheist party in Beijing will notify the Vatican of their choice and Francis will submit a rubber stamp. This is a shocking way to determine the anointed successor of the apostle of Jesus,” Gallagher said. To tell.
Mr Gallagher is expected to accuse the Pope of “surrendering”, saying it was “a disaster for other religions in China”.
Vatican Last year, it accused China of violating international agreements and appointing bishops to dioceses not recognized by the Holy See.
“The Holy See expressed surprise and regret upon learning of the news of the appointment of Bishop Giovanni Peng Weijiao, Bishop of Yujiang (Jiangxi Province), as “auxiliary bishop” in Nanchang on November 24th.”Jiangxi The Congregation is a diocese not recognized by the Holy See,” the Vatican said in a statement last year.
Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
The installation of the bishop would be one of the most serious violations of the agreement between China and the Vatican, which was first signed in 2018.
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The deal has been heavily criticized by international observers, who accuse the Catholic Church of subjugating to China’s Communist government.
Despite this criticism, the Vatican renewed its agreement with the Chinese Communist Party last month, sparking fresh backlash.
But the Vatican also expressed its intention to continue cooperating with the Chinese government. Communist Party of China We will abide by the terms of the 2018 agreement.
“The Holy See hopes that similar events will not be repeated, awaits appropriate communication from the authorities on this matter, and reiterates its full desire to continue a respectful dialogue on all matters of common interest.” We will confirm,” the statement said.
However, Mr Gallagher is expected to discuss what he means by the “opposition of communism”.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Summit during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on November 19, 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP)
“Perhaps the opposite of communism is not a political and economic system at all, because communism itself is not a political and economic system at all. Communism is a perverted and inverted religion, a religion that imposes everything not by free belief but by force. “It’s an ideology to consume. It’s indoctrination,” he is expected to say. “The church is a forced labor camp, a forced labor camp, a re-education center. Its confessional is a torture chamber. Its priests are censors, propagandists, and secret police.”
“The opposite of communism may be faith in God.”
Communism “seeks control. Faith seeks love,” Gallagher added.
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“Communism,” he would say, “seeks the annihilation of the individual at the altar of the collective. Faith demands the dignity of the individual, the respect due to each of us as children of God.” “Faith seeks the upliftment of the human spirit, but communism seeks its degradation.”
Gallagher is also expected to emphasize that the United States’ long-term “strategic competition” with the Chinese Communist Party “is not a test of different socio-economic systems. It is a battle for the soul.”
