- Mon, Oct 18, 2010
- Persecuted Church
Map showing the distribution of Christians in China
Map from Global Mapping International, showing the distribution of Christians in China.
Map from Global Mapping International, showing the distribution of Christians in China.
Resources pastors and group leaders can use on the subject of the persecuted church.
Randy Alcorn gives a message on the persecuted church at Good Shepherd Community Church in 2005, titled "Those of Whom the World Is Not Worthy."
A new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China has found that the number of religious believers among the country’s 1.3 billion people is far higher than generally known, amounting to as many as 300 million.
On Sunday, March 17. 2002, Christians were gathered for worship at the non-denominational Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Christians murdered, enslaved, families wiped out (Spring 1998)
While we should rejoice that persecution has lessened significantly in some places, let’s be careful not to perpetuate the lie that Christians are no longer persecuted in China.
Is this the day I die? He’d asked himself the question every day.
This was Sunday. It was on Sunday that Quan’s great-grandfather had been beheaded. And it was Sunday his father died in prison after a beating.
”It is time?” Ming whispered, her voice a feather falling upon silk. Candle flame dancing in her brown eyes, she looked just as she had ten years ago, at their wedding in Shanghai.
Quan kissed her delicate forehead. Already in this short night he’d dreamed again he held her wounded body—Ming running red through his fingers in a ...
I am really torn on this one. There’s no way to know what products are made through forced labor of religious and political prisoners, though I would guess it would be less than 10 percent.
“Remember those who are in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourself were suffering.” Hebrews 13:3 (NIV)
More Christians are persecuted and martyred for their faith in this century than all previous centuries combined. Nearly two thirds of all Christians alive in the world today suffer persecution in varying degrees, including the loss of freedom, discrimination, imprisonment, slavery, torture and even death.
“I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him ...