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In this photo taken Saturday, June 2, 2018, residents past by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping and part of the slogans which reads “Actively play the leading role of party building and comprehensively implement the plan for poverty alleviation” near Pingdingshan city in central China's Henan province. Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival. Experts and activists say that as he consolidates his power, Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
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