What to Say During Spring Festival
In this article, published in January 2012 on the Mainland website Gospel Times, the author considers ways that believers can share with their family members during the traditional Chinese New Year Festival.
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Toward a Culture of Partnering
Opportunities for collaboration between Christians inside and outside China have evolved as China's continued opening has allowed for more natural cross-cultural relationships. Early attempts at partnering were often one-way, with those outside China providing funds, training, and other resources to an indigenous church with great needs but seemingly little to contribute in return. With the emergence of a new generation of trained leaders who are increasingly connected with the global church, either virtually or directly through going abroad or working with foreigners in country, collaboration has moved to a new level.
So What Are We to Do about the “Hovering Fog and Filthy Air”?
Following up on her January 30, 2013 blog, Tiger Lily poses a question.
Beyond “Two Camps”: The Complex Relationship between Official and Unregistered Church in China
Attempts by China watchers to unravel the complexity of China's Christian community often result in a bifurcated view depicting a pitched battle between the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and the house church. Liberal theology, political control, and collusion in persecuting believers characterize the TSPM, while the "real Christians" are to be found only in the house church, a bastion of evangelical faith set amidst an atheistic state that is out to destroy it.
The Power of the Gospel — a Miao Village that is 80% Christian
This article, translated from the Mainland based website Christian Times, is a testimony to the power of the Gospel among the Miao people of Yunnan Province.
China’s Church through Western Eyes
Scanning the headlines on any given day, one cannot but take note of the vastly different portraits of China which emerge.
“Eastern Lightning Destroyed My Family”
The article translated below is a testimony from a Christian man who lost his wife to the Eastern Lightning Cult. It is posted on a Mainland-based website called Kuanye Zhi Sheng (Voice in the Wilderness).
Is China Persecuting More Christians for their Faith?
According to the China Aid 13.8% more Christians in China were persecuted last year as compared with 2011, continuing a trend of increasing persecution that goes back to at least 2007.
Christianity and Regulation in China
An article on a think-tank website in China lays out the current conditions of Christianity and religious regulations in China.
Counting China’s Christians
According to Pew Research Center's latest statistics, China has more than 600 million religious believers. Of these, an estimated 68 million are Protestant Christians, accounting for just over five percent of the population.
Getting Better or Getting Worse?
Those of us who work in China are often asked if we think that the situation for the church in China is getting better or worse. I have always found that to be a problematic question.
An Urban Migrant Pastor Discusses His Church’s Vision
In this post, translated from the Christian Times, we hear from a pastor who leads a church of migrant factory workers in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.