According to ChinaAid, the Public Security Commission of China’s Communist Party Central Committee issued a secret plan in December 2010 to eradicate China’s house churches. The plan calls for all the churches and clergy to be documented on a computerized list by June 2012; churches and clergy not on the list would then be deemed illegal. The long-term goal is to push the house churches into joining the government-controlled China Christian Council/Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM) or be broken up within ten years. The CCC/TSPM, in cooperation with the State Administration for Religious Affairs, has been holding “Training Sessions for Ministerial Certification,” which include “patriotic” education. Part of the plan is to eliminate the term “house churches” and instead call them “house gatherings.”
