ALERT: China Just Made MASSIVE Move To Eradicate Christianity — It’ll Leave You Speechless

• Christianity in China under severe fire and persecution
• Christianity is seen as the enemy of the state by Chinese authorities
• The governments of China seeks to have complete control of Christianity – by FORCE
• The Chinese government institutes government run church to control Christianity and its spread

"...if we put up a fight, they would tear down the church..."

The government of China — which President Barack Obama hailed as “a responsible player in global affairs” — has torn down more than 2,000 crosses in its effort to regulate “excessive religious sites.”

In some cases, Chinese authorities oversaw the burning of crosses after they were torn down from Christian churches.

As part of its campaign, 49 Christian churches have been destroyed since the beginning of the year, according to the group China Aid. The group also said pastors are being targeted.

One Beijing pastor is under house arrest on charges of “endangering state security” and “gathering a crowd to disturb public order,” China Aid said.

Some churches are being told to take down the crosses under the pretext the crosses do not meet building codes. China Aid noted that in one recent case, church members protested.

“On Friday, a demolition team of more than 100 people took down the cross atop Shangen Church and severely injured a female church member, who was among the protesters,” China Aid reported on a March 29 incident.

“The woman was knocked to the ground and later taken to the hospital for her injures. Police and security guards at the demolition were armored and carried riot shields to hold back church members.”

“(The officers) ordered us not to resist. (They said) if we put up a fight, they would tear down the church instead,” an anonymous member of another church told China Aid.

“China is attempting to control Christianity in two ways; demolishing the Christian image and arresting leaders, and manipulating them through a government run church,” said a statement from International Christian Concern.

“The top leadership is increasingly worried about the rapid growth of Christian faith and their public presence, and their social influence,” said China Aid president Bob Fu.

About Christianity in China

Christianity in China has a history going back to the 7th century during the Tang dynasty. Today, it comprises Catholics, Protestants, and a small number of Orthodox Christians.

In recent years, the number of Chinese Christians has increased significantly, particularly since the easing of restrictions on religious activity during economic reforms in the late 1970s; Christians were 4 million before 1949 (3 million Catholics and 1 million Protestants). Today, accurate data on Chinese Christians is hard to come by. According to official figures, Christians are 26 million, whereas according to the estimates by some scholars and some Christian groups, there are up to 100 million Christians in China. Government figures tend to exclude unrecognized underground “house” churches, non-registered believers and children.

In many parts of China, the practice of religion continues to be tightly controlled by government authorities. Chinese over the age of 18 are only permitted to join officially sanctioned Christian groups registered with the government-approved Protestant Three-Self Church and China Christian Council, and Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church. On the other hand, many Christians practice in informal networks referred to as "house churches", the proliferation of which began in the 1950s when many Chinese Catholics and Protestants began to reject state-controlled structures purported to represent them. Members of such groups are said to represent the "silent majority" of Chinese Christians and represent many diverse theological traditions.

Missionary expansion (1807–1900)

140 years of Protestant missionary work began with Robert Morrison, arriving in Macau on 4 September 1807. Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the Bible. He also compiled a Chinese dictionary for the use of Westerners. The Bible translation took twelve years and the compilation of the dictionary, sixteen years.

The pace of missionary activity increased considerably after the First Opium War in 1842. Christian missionaries and their schools, under the protection of the Western powers, went on to play a major role in the Westernization of China in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the 1840s, Western missionaries spread Christianity rapidly through the coastal cities that were open to foreign trade: and since then, Christianity has spread and grown a great deal in China.

Source:

www.westernjournalism.com


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