After systematically expelling almost all foreign Christians from China over the past 6 or 7 years and offering cash rewards to people who provide tip-offs to the police that lead to the arrest of foreign Christians, a widespread persecution has afflicted God’s people in every part of the nation, but especially in the border provinces.
Many Christians in China have warily eyed the brutal punishment metered out against more than one million Muslims in Xinjiang, who have been detained and “re-programmed” in concentration camps throughout Xinjiang. This brief article by US senator Tom Cotton summarizes the grim situation, which has now spread to other ethnic minority areas in China, with hundreds of thousands of Tibetans now also believed to have been forced into concentration camps.
The Communist Party has even been working on a new Bible, removing passages they don’t like, and replacing them with socialist teachings. One proposed change is the story of the woman at the well. The Communist Party didn’t like that she was forgiven, so in one textbook they are reportedly changing it so that instead of Jesus telling her, “Go and sin no more,” the new teaching has Jesus picking up a stone and stoning her to death! Let’s see if God will allow such blatant blasphemy and corruption of His holy Word to go unpunished.
Pray for President Xi Jinping and China’s other leaders, that God would soften their hearts and cause them to repent and submit their lives to Jesus Christ before it is too late. And continue to pray for the Body of Christ in China, that the great revival of the past 50 years would continue to burn and bring many millions more people into the kingdom of God.
In several speeches, Xi has spoken about his desire for a “great nationalist revival” of the Chinese people. Pray the Living God will indeed continue and expand His great revival — just not the kind Xi Jinping expects!
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