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.
They cannot remember their own martyrs but should pray for the Communist soldiers who died in the war with Japan.
The crackdown is seen as part of a wider campaign against independent education.
Electronic Bibles are popular in China. But not with the CCP, as the Christians operating Shenzhen Life Tree Culture Communication painfully discovered.
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.
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