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Saturday, November 15, 2003 |
This is the seventh day of the the week of prayer for the persecuted Church worldwide
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Chinese Gang Accused of Trafficking. More than 30 members of a gang accused of trafficking women and children have been arrested in southwestern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. The 46-person gang in Yunnan province allegedly kidnapped and sold more than 150 women and 27 children in six provinces across China, Xinhua said. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
9:15:14 AM
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Where Do All the (DEAD) Babies Go?. Does anyone know what happens to the fetuses that are forcibly aborted from North Korean women and the bodies of their babies that are killed after birth in the concentration camps? It's clear to me at least that they are... [Free North Korea!]
9:13:37 AM
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NO CHANGE IN REPRESSIVE RELIGIOUS POLICIES
(Compass) -- Any hope that the new state leadership in China, headed by President Hu Jintao, would usher in more liberal policies towards religious believers appears to be premature. A senior house church leader interviewed in October confirmed that repression still continues in many areas. Unregistered house churches are harassed, their members fined and leaders sent without trial to “re-education through labor” camps. Underground Roman Catholics loyal to the Vatican also face continuing opposition. Repression of religion, though not as all-encompassing as in the days of Chairman Mao, is still a familiar feature of everyday life.
9:07:36 AM
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BISHOP STEPS UP ATTACKS ON THE GOSPEL
(Compass) -- Bishop Ding, the most influential leader of the state-controlled Chinese “Three Self” Protestant church, has significantly stepped up his anti-Christian “theological construction” campaign in recent months. A lecture delivered at the East China Theological Seminary in Shanghai entitled “Theological Construction Enters a New Stage” (published in Tianfeng magazine in September 2003) clearly shows that “theological construction” is a smoke screen for an attack on the beliefs of Bible-believing Chinese evangelicals. Critical of 19th century missionaries who came to China for “linking the question of belief and unbelief with heaven and hell,” Ding insists that such beliefs intimidate people. “We Chinese Christians must unite with all the people of China and not be disunited with other people because they do not believe,” he states. “We must remold Chinese Christianity to become a Christianity which … will be welcomed by the Chinese Communist Party and is compatible with socialism.”
9:04:06 AM
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