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A Chinese pastor offers encouragement to parents whose children are preparing to take the annual college entrance examination.
Chinese Christians go online to call for prayer for the victims of a deadly fire at a food processing plant.
The following article from the mainland site Gospel Times tells of an anti-abortion public service announcement that was posted online as well as played on Bus-TV in Chengdu, urging people to avoid having abortions on International Children's Day (June 1), and of other anti-abortion activities in Changchun, Jilin.
An intereview with a woman pastor of a Three-Self Church in Beijing about the unique challenges of balancing here ministry with being a mother.
A Chinese Christian comments on the milk powder scandal, reminding fellow believers to focus on Christ and the Word and not rely on works or other "spiritual additives."
This article, translated from the mainland site Gospel Times, is about a young dancer named Liao Zhi who lost both of her legs in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
This is a translation of a long Weibo post by a leader in a Three-Self Church college fellowship. In it he relates a conversation he had recently with a friend regarding the deaths of so many people in the Wenchuan earthquake.
This article, posted on the mainland site Christian Times is a summary of an internet post by a pastor from Xinjiang Autonomous Region on how to discern true and false gods.
Chinese Christians take to social media to react to the Ya'an Earthquake.
A conversation with a worship leader in a Beijing house church regarding the issue of music in the church.