Holiness??? WTH is that?? Define it in terms of how are they better then you or me or anyone else.
NPR is not to be trusted on this. Their source is AP which in turn (I think) sources The People’s Daily which is, IIRC, the Communist Party’s newspaper in China.
And I wouldn’t put it past the ChiComs to misrepresent this very sort of thing.
You just told me not to trust what the media says. Worship was a word chosen by the writer.
Do you believe in Christian Saints?