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Today, ChinaAid released its Annual 2009 Persecution Report, covering Christian persecution, specifically of House Churches, in China. Results indicate a 19% overall increase in persecution in comparison with the data from 2008. This marks a total increase in persecution levels of 120% within the last two years. The report summarizes the data collected by ChinaAid and offers both theoretical and diagram models to illustrate Christian persecution trends.
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According to Chinese news sources, a little girl born with an easily fixed medical condition on January 12th has effectively been sentenced to death in a hospice in the Chinese city of Tianjin – in a case that pro-life advocates charge stems from China’s strictly enforced one-child policy, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
When they discovered that Baby Mei had been born without an anus, her parents rejected her. According to reports, they ignored the pleas of surgeons to allow the simple surgery tha… >>
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Changchun, China (LifeNews.com) — A nine-year-old girl in China is drawing national attention today because she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, making her one of the youngest mothers on record. The girl was brought to a hospital in this northeastern Chinese city and presented as more than eight months pregnant.
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There were several incidents of attacks on Christians by Chinese authorities in recent weeks…. read more.
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NANJING, China (UCAN) – A decade after their controversial ordinations, three bishops have recalled the different paths their lives have taken since then.
The ordination of a total of five bishops without papal mandate in Beijing’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral (South Church) on Jan. 6, 2000, sent shockwaves through the Church around the world.
Although China has been electing [...]
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(AP) – HONOLULU – A Salvation Army youth pastor and Sunday school teacher has been sentenced to six months in prison for trying to ship 9,000 pounds of illegal fireworks to Hawaii. Thirty-four-year-old Christina Everett faced up to 21 months in prison for trying to ship the aerial fireworks from China into Hawaii in 2007. She pleaded guilty in September to…
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FUZHOU, China (UCAN) — A musician priest in eastern China says he hopes a professional recording studio he set up could help non-Catholics get to know God.
The studio could facilitate exchange between the Church and society, said Father Luke Li Lujia, 33, of Fuzhou diocese.
He said the studio in Ximen St. Joseph’s Church, which opened [...]
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(CNN) – Under the bright lights of the international media, Beijing police shut down what would have been the first ever Mr. Gay pageant in China, an hour before the show. Leading up to it there was a…
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Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639 cell, jwalton@TheIRD.org
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /Christian Newswire/ — The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) is dismayed at the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA)'s having ignored religious persecution in China during its recent visit. Instead, it spoke only of cooperation with the government-registered church while disregarding restrictions by the communist regime on unofficial churches. The vast majori Source: Institute on Religion & Democracy
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An elderly priest and 10 lay Catholics from Taiyuan diocese have established the first Catholic place of worship in Lin’e county, northern China. (more…)
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Church leaders in China have reported that a central government crackdown on unofficial Protestant churches has intensified. It is believed over 40 people were arrested over the Christmas period and into January in the central province of Hebei and the
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By Avril Ormsby LONDON – The Archbishop of Sudan accused China on Monday of pursuing a damaging policy of economic gain in his country and urged Beijing to use its influence to help ease rising tension ahead of elections. Archbishop Daniel Deng said
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press Writer KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia January 11, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press Malaysia strongly condemned attacks on nine Christian churches and sought to assure foreign governments Monday of its commitment to religious freedom for minorities.In this file photo, shoppers mill about Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After flyers failed to… In this file photo, shoppers mill about Chinatown in…
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Contact: Annee Kahler, Media Coordinator, 267-210-8278, Annee@ChinaAid.org; Jenny McCloy, Directory of Advocacy (Washington, DC), 202-213-0506, Jenny@ChinaAid.org; www.ChinaAid.org, www.MonitorChina.org
XINJIANG, China, Jan. 10 /Christian Newswire/ — With the turn of the new year, a wave of persecution has struck Han and Uyghur Christians alike in the ethnically and religiously charged Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
On December 25, 2009, farm leaders and police broke into the home o Source: China Aid Association, Inc.
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The bishop encouraged quiet opposition to China’s strictures on religion but also heeded the pope’s call to improve relations.
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Anti-capital punishment and human rights NGO Reprieve has condemned in the strongest terms the latest state execution in China – that of a mentally ill Briton who supporters say was conned into drug smuggling.
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Yu Jianrong, a researcher with the CASS, said many church properties were closed down during the "cultural revolution". But it was during this 10 years of turmoil that religion began to spre…
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Are most communists inherently atheist? The two often seem intertwined and this combination has proven deadlier than Christianity.
Mao Zedong leader of China murdered 70,000,000. Joseph Stalin leader of the Soviet Union 20,000,000. Pol Pot leader of Cambodia 2,000,000. See what non Christian leaders of the 20th century have accomplished?
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