FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2012 file photo, a worshipper offers prayer in front of a Buddha statue for her first visit of the year in Huayan Temple in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. In a ...

BEIJING: The Communist Party has ordered local governments to better regulate the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions on religious expression in China. The ...

Local governments are being urged to ramp up efforts to regulate the construction of new large outdoor religious statues, the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) ...

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China’s ruling Communist Party has ordered local governments to better regulate the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions on religious expression of all kinds.