Chinese Christians “outraged” over church demolition, says advocacy group
Chinese Christians are reportedly “outraged” after officials demolished a state-registered megachurch in Anhui province late last week. US-based group ChinaAid reported that the demolition began last Friday during a worship service. The organisation said that during the demolition, Christians had knelt and begged authorities not to tear down the building, which had a reported capacity […]
Pakistan expels South Korean for ‘illegal preaching’ after murder of Chinese ‘missionaries’
World Watch Monitor Pakistan has ordered a South Korean man to leave the country, accusing him of involvement in “illegal preaching activities”, after two of his students at an Urdu-language school were abducted and killed by the so-called Islamic State group, which claimed they had been secretly preaching Christianity. “Investigations have revealed that [Juan Won-seo] went […]
ESSAY: AMERICA IS ABANDONING INDEPENDENT CHRISTIANS IN CHINA
In an article first published on Religion News Service, CHLOË STARR, associate professor of Asian Christianity and theology at Yale Divinity School in the US, argues that America’s decision to cede its role as “global moral enforcement officer” has consequences for China’s Christians…