Correspondents Report

Going underground: the Communist Party crackdown on religion in China


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China is set to launch a nationwide crackdown on the Church. The Communist Party has just enacted much tougher laws that criminalise Christians if they don't pledge loyalty to the state. The Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that all religions now have to become 'Chinese' and the new laws will attempt to bring churchgoers and their leaders under party control. China correspondent Matthew Carney visited those in the firing line: the underground churches.
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