making a stand

Persecution against Christians has reached a new level in China. How would we fare under these pressures?

More than two hundred Chinese church leaders have issued a brave declaration calling for religious freedom, in an echo of the stands taken by German church leaders against the Nazis in the 1930s and Romanian church leaders against the Communist regime in the 1980s.1

The persecution of religion, but especially Christianity, is growing in China. On 10th September, the Chinese government announced new draft measures to control online religious activity that will ban the live streaming of church services, requiring organisations publishing religious information online to obtain a licence.The regulations also prohibit foreign pastors from preaching online. [Early in September], authorities shut down one of the largest unofficial churches in Beijing – such congregations are known as “house churches” – after church leaders had refused to allow government authorities to install CCTV cameras inside the building.