- 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.
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.
Your book, Safely Home, has served as an inspiration to me.
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.
Some churches are able to worship freely while other church leaders are being arrested, persecuted and jailed.
When the night ended, they had enough money in hand to provide over 4,100 Bibles to the people of China.
A list of organizations EPM recommends to help provide Bibles for China.
In your book, Safely Home, you talk about the persecution of Christians in China. I have a friend who visited China and went to a church where the Christians had Bibles and were free to worship. Can you explain this?
House churches in China vary widely in a number of respects: in some every family may have a Bible, in others there may be just one Bible for the whole church. In some areas there is great persecution of house church believers, in other areas the authorities ignore them, and sometimes certain authorities may even attend. Freedoms vary greatly.
One ...