As if rallying around the apostles’ declaration that “We must serve God rather than men” (Acts 5:29), Christians continue to boldly share the Gospel in the streets of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Witnesses who share their
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Approximately 15 years ago, the St. Boniface church in San Francisco started opening its doors for homeless people in need of shelter. Father Louis Vitale of the church along with community activist Shelly Roder, started the effort, which is known
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Refugee resettlement hit a record low over the past year, with the United States taking in fewer than half the amount permitted under a reduced refugee ceiling of 45,000. While the number of displaced people and persecuted Christians continues to
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More than 1,000 government agents, including police, forced their way into an unofficial churchin Henan province on 14 September and removed items from the building. Church members had locked the church doors, but the officials broke into the church building, ignoring
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The Chinese government is destroying crosses, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith as the crackdown on religious congregations in Beijing and several provinces intensifies. The suppression of religious freedoms is part of
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08/13/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Wednesday, August 8, 2018. No. 176 Beiyuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. Longbaochen Commercial Building, Floor 3. Beijing Zion Church. At 10:00 a.m., 30 elderly Christians were enjoying the rehearsal performance in the spacious main hall, put
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China (MNN) — Mission Cry’s Jason Woolford calls Hong Kong “a melting pot.” “There are so many people from Indonesia and Africa and other places who are coming to Hong Kong,” Woolford says. So what better place to distribute Christian literature
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Thirty-four “house churches” (unregistered church groups) in Beijing have issued a statement calling for Chinese authorities to respect freedom of religion. The Protestant congregations highlighted recent changes to religious regulations and the targeting of “house churches” which they sate has
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Two Korean missionaries were arrested in the city of Wenzhou and their church searched. Persecution continues against underground pastors. Xi Jinping’s new rules against religious freedom start to bear fruit. Whenzou (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Chinese authorities arrested two South Korean missionaries
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In 2015, I visited China’s Beatitudes (Bafu) Public School, an unregistered church-run school in the outskirts of Beijing, and was impressed by its level of professionalism: Bright crafts hung on the classroom walls, and a reading nook was fashioned with
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