HONG KONG (UCAN): Foreign textbooks translated into Putonghua for sixth-grade students in China have had religious references expunged, according to media reports. The removal of any mention of God and Bible have especially horrified Christians.
 

BEIJING (SE): A series of articles published in the Global Times during July is reiterating the perpetual warning to members of the Communist Party that religious belief is blacklisted, as it poses a danger to the purity of Marxist atheism and can derail party direction and functionality.
 
“Party members should not have religious beliefs, but follow atheist Marxism; otherwise, they will be punished,” Wang Zuo’an, the director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, was quoted as saying by the Global Times.