BIBLE “God made the Heaven and the Earth,” but that Biblical proclamation can no longer be preached or taught in a Chinese Christian church, according to Communist officials, since it is contrary to Chinese cultural traditions. From Christian Headlines: Chinese government officials…apparently editing the Bible out of sermons… A pastor in Shangqiu city in Henan […]

This is an update on the current state of the Government persecution of Christians in China. Not only is the government shutting down and destroying churches but now authorities are actually trying to force Christians to deny their faith. From the Baptist Press:      …"The massive clampdown against thousands of churches in Henan and the […]

            (Xi Jinping: Wikipedia) Chinese authorities have begun a new campaign to target Christians and force them to acknowledge the supremacy of the Communist Party over their religion. in some cases Christian families have been required to replace crosses and pictures of Jesus in their homes with posters of the Communist leader Xi Jinping. Here’s […]

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 […]

                (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 […]

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 […]

                                          (Flag of China via Wikipedia) The Chinese Communist authorities are all about controlling religion in their country particularly Christianity. They have noted the role that Christianity played in bringing down the Berlin Wall, Communist Poland,  and the Romanian despot and would like to avoid that outcome. However, one scholar says that the rulers have […]