China Olympic Committee

China Olympic Committee

Among key issues raised is religious freedom, with China watchers reporting ongoing restrictions on freedom of worship, particularly for unregistered church groups, arrests, detention in labor camps and confiscation of Christian literature. Chinese citizens can now choose their own careers, travel abroad, own a car and establish a business.

But Christians cannot legally hold a prayer meeting in a private home, share a church service with foreign Christians or interact with foreign Christian organizations. China still bans religious education for children under the age of 18 and limits the publication of Bibles and other religious materials. On January 23, police raided and severely beat members of a house church in Yunnan province, CAA reported. The raid occurred after two church members, Chen Xiqiong and Liang Guihua

Let us not stop thinking and praying for them ...

Also in December, authorities in Shandong arrested 270 house church leaders who had gathered for training in Linyi city. According to CAA, officials released 249 of the leaders but sentenced 21 senior leaders to between one and three years of detention in labor camphad launched an “Anti-illegal Christian Activities Campaign” in Xinjiang. Authorities have arrested at least three Uyghur house church Christians in recent monthsThe worse may be yet to come; CAA sources are predicting a severe crackdown on all unregistered house churches beginning on

Pray for those in thse camps

Pray for their Families

June 1.Officially there are 16 million Protestant believers and 5 million Catholics, but these figures exclude members of unregistered churches. Compass sources estimate there are 60 million additional Christians: 10 million in major house church networks, 35 million in independent rural house churches and 15 million in independent house churches. encouraging Christians around the world to pray for the Chinese church in the lead-up to the Olympics. Fu

pray for the House Church

Pray for the leadership wisdom

Xianwei, president of the official Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee of Protestant Churches, and Liu Bainian, vice-chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, both told media that they were providing language training for official religious services during the Games. The Beijing Olympic Committee responded positively to Liu’s suggestion that Bibles be placed in Beijing hotel rooms for the religious needs of foreign visitors, according to a report in the China Daily on March 10.

Pray for the bibles being put in the Hotels.

Pray for these times of traning

A word to hide behind?By Lars Widerberg The prophet is a man brought forth under the hand of God to reprove and correct a straying Church. A prophet is a man who by nature and calling is jealous for truth, intensely jealous for eternal values. A prophet studies, he seeks diligently and carefully searches the ways of grace and truth for the sake of a full measure of salvation revealed among the people of God. But, some prophets have found themselves a word to hide behind. The men who, per definition, were sent to bring words of exhortation have arranged for themselves a hiding place from being reprimanded, from receiving proper and healthy correction.And, they have found it in the Word of the Lord: “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Their major rebuke is to be heard everywhere: “Do not oppose the prophet. You may not come against the anointing.” A shorter article on the misuse of a word of the Lord to for the sake of securing positions and names. . .