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.
Shaanxi Bible School held a study session on the CCP Congress. It also honored an early pro-CCP bishop and two “revolutionary heroes” who were raised as Christians.
The 2021 regulations call for devoting at least 30% of classroom time to study Marxism and Xi Jinping’s thought. Inspections are now making sure they are obeyed.
Heavy jail penalties are sought against Christians who purchased “legal” Bibles from the Three-Self Church but distributed them “illegally” as part of house church activities.
A plan for church activities hardly includes anything Christian, and calls for studying and teaching the works of Marx and Xi Jinping, and the CCP official documents.
He had what looked like a good idea and distributed anti-COVID masks with Bible verses. The police did not appreciate it.
Uyghur Christians fan the flame of the death of the first of their number ninety years on.
Pastor Wan Changchun was one of the signatories of the 2018 statement of protest against the new Religious Affairs Regulation.
Wang Honglan and other Inner Mongolia believer risk 15 years in jail for selling Bibles that were regularly printed by a government-authorized publisher.
The rental of premises where the service should be held on Sunday March 5 was cancelled on Saturday night, and the police prevented several believers from leaving home.
