In 1949 the Chinese Communist government closed down all of the Christian churches and kicked the missionaries out of the country. There were 900,000 Chinese Christians at the time. Later during the ‘Cultural Revolution’ Chairman Mao and his wife declared that there were none, but the church had merely gone underground. Now there are over […]

China Among the Worst and Anti-Semitism on the Rise Internationally A new Pew study on religious liberty and persecution across the world entitled- “Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities” showed that China headed the list of the most restrictive nations. North Korea was not included in this study since it is too difficult to […]

                (Flag of the Chinese Communist Party:  Wikipedia) For over 40 years the Chinese communist authorities used everything and every tactic at their disposal to eliminate  illegal Christian groups meeting clandestinely in private homes.  They arrested the leaders and persecuted the families and yet the ‘house churches’ in China continued to grow exponentially. When the […]

                                                 (Image via Wikipedia) Does VP Biden really support China’s forced ‘one-child’ policy? In a speech during his visit to China, Biden made the following remarks: “Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family.” Maybe the VP doesn’t fully realize that the ‘one-child’ policy […]

                                                 (Image via Wikipedia) Shi Enhao, deputy chairman of the Chinese House Church Alliance and an underground pastor, was sentenced this week to two years in a labor camp. He was charged with holding “illegal meetings and illegal organizing of venues for religious meetings”. Enhao was sentenced by Chinese authorities without a trial or access […]

Chinese authorities have insisted for a long time that the Catholic Church in China is under government control and not subject to ‘foreign’ (Vatican) influence. As a result of this policy, the Chinese government has chosen new Bishops over the Catholic Church in China and has kept the old ones loyal to the pope under […]