approval for religious schools, websites, and any online religious service, and effectively banned unauthorized religious gatherings and teachings. (6) There are numerous reports that authorities in the People's Republic of China have forced closures of Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Taoist houses of worship and destroyed public displays of religious symbols throughout the country. (7) Authorities of the People's Republic of China have arrested and detained religious leaders trying to hold services online. (8) There are credible reports of Chinese authorities raiding house churches and other places of religious worship, removing and confiscating religious paraphernalia, installing surveillance cameras on religious property, pressuring congregations to sing songs of the Chinese Communist Party and display the national flag during worship, forcing churches to replace images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and banning children and students from attending religious services. (9) It has been reported that the Government of the People’s Republic of China is rewriting and will issue a version of the Bible with the correct understanding of the text according to the Chinese Communist Party. Authorities continue to restrict the printing and distribution of the Bible, Quran, and other religious literature and penalize publishing and copying businesses that handle religious materials. (10) According to International Religious Freedom reports issued by the Department of State, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has imprisoned thousands of individuals of all faiths for practicing their religious beliefs and often labels groups of those individuals as cults . (11) According to the Department of Labor, the Government of the People's Republic of China has arbitrarily detained more than 1,000,000 Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in China’s far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (12) It has been reported that the Government of the People's