Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Operation World on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1 Missionaries, as such, are not welcome in China. Yet China’s desire to improve trading relations with the world makes it possible for many Chinese and foreign Christians to enter as:
a) Tourists — over 30m visited China in 1995 and spent $US9 billion. Many Christians were among them. Pray for their ministry of bringing literature, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Operation World on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OPERATION WORLD: China – The Church
The unregistered or house church networks are the heart of the true Church in China. Intense persecution has indigenized and purified it. Prayer, revival, simple living and a christocentric theology characterize it. Twenty or more larger networks are known to exist, but their numbers are a matter of conjecture. Reasonable [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Operation World on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About 7% of China’s population is Christian today, but their distribution is not even. In this section are given some of the nationally significant but less evangelized sections of the population.
1 The nearly 60 million Communist Party members are, by definition, atheists, but ideology is a facade to cover self-seeking opportunism. Disillusionment and defection [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Operation World on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2 Leadership training is woefully deficient, and a crisis need. It is reckoned that there is but one ordained pastor for every 7,000 TSPM members. By 1999 there were 18 official seminaries with 1,200 residential and 3,000 distance-learning students. Pray for:
a) Faculty — often selected for their political correctness rather than for their walk with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Operation World on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1 The Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) was instituted by ‘patriotic’ and often theologically liberal Christians with the strong encouragement of the Communist Party as the interface between the government and Church. After 13 years of oblivion it was reconstituted in 1979 to wrest the initiative from the burgeoning house church movement, and enable the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, India, Mission News, North Korea on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ministry a laser beam of light in dark corner
North Korea (ODM/MNN) ― Do you ever wonder if anyone is making a difference in the darkness of North Korea? Open Doors is. They’re planting seeds of hope in a country that is widely recognized as the world’s worst persecutor of Christians.
This is happening not only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, India, Persecuted Church, Uzbekistan on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UZBEKISTAN – Government Cracks Down on Religious Literature
The Uzbekistan government is continuing its persecution of Christians and Baptists, punishing them for distributing free literature. In one case Christians were questioned for seven hours without food or water, according to Forum 18 News. A Baptist believer was fired from his job as an electrician after the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Islam, Philippines, Russia on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Islam in Russia today
Islam is the second most widely professed religion in the Russian Federation, and it is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Nigeria, Persecuted Church, Uzbekistan on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Uzbekistan – Children and Parents Threatened for Attending Services
Police in southeast Uzbekistan have begun a campaign against children attending places of worship, Forum 18 News Service reported. The authorities’ campaign, which also uses the state-controlled mass media, attacks schools and parents who allow children to attend religious “sects.” Pray for Christian families who have come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Egypt, Persecuted Church on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CHINA –House Church Leaders Arrested – China Aid Association
On Feb. 11, 60 house church leaders, including two South Korean pastors, were arrested by Chinese authorities while attending a seminar in Wolong district, Henan province. According to China Aid Association, 30 police officers disrupted the meeting, arrested the Christians and confiscated phones, books and money. Authorities [...]
