The 2019 annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlights worsening religious freedom conditions in China over the past year.
The report observes that "religious freedom conditions in China trended negative," especially after new regulations "effectively banned ‘unauthorized' religious teachings and required religious groups to report any online activity." China's government "continued to persecute all faiths in an effort to ‘sinicize' religious belief, a campaign that attempts not only to diminish and erase the independent practice of religion, but also the cultural and linguistic heritage of religious and ethnic communities, particularly Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims."
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