A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Christian faith is banned in Xi Jinping’s China and believers are persecuted and jailed.
Daniel H. Williams is professor of patristics and historical theology at the Department of Religion of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The author or editor of six books, he has also been active in teaching in China since 2006.
Pastors are expected to hail the CCP and the President, and conclude with “Long live the great, glorious and correct Chinese Communist Party!”
Visitors are told that “the Chinese Communist Party has been inextricably linked to Christianity from the day of its birth.”
Gao Heng asked to commemorate Tiananmen with prayer and repentance. He was told this is a criminal offense in China.
The Korea-based Good News Mission, a christian movement, is being banned in China, and its churches raided, one province after the other.
Trying to save his church’s cross from destruction and refusing to use services to spread “patriotic” propaganda were regarded as serious crimes.
In Lushan county, Henan, one Niu Guobao organized a meeting to pray and sing hymns. Now, he has to pay a fine of 160,000 yuan.
Christians were harassed, often with the pretext of COVID-19. Meanwhile, 80% of Christmas ornaments sold in the West were made in China.
More accounts from across China on crackdowns against Protestant places of worship.
Even little keepsakes with religious content are becoming off-limits to people of faith in China, as authorities punish those who make and distribute them.
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