Christianity in China -- Some good news?
Category: The Persecuted Church...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 at 09:24 PM [GMT-6]

At the risk of setting off an endless trackback loop*, I'd like to draw your attention to this post which provides further links that ultimately lead to an article in the well-regarded The Economist. That article provides some encouraging evidence that Christianity is making discernible inroads in China...on college campuses, of all places.

The Economist is a subscription-only site and so I'm unable to read the full text of the article. If anyone has access to it and would like to provide a more complete summary, I'd be happy to post it here. Keeping the Chinese Christian church in the spotlight is one way to ensure that dark-loving forces don't make inroads, IFKWIM. And if you think we no longer need to be concerned about dark forces in China, you might want to spend some time perusing one of the recently-issued reports from the UN's Human Rights Commission. There are several to choose from, but a good starting point is the Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Mission to China [download the 23 page PDF document], where we learn that China is doing everything the international community is asking, other than the minor detail of actual changing anything. Perhaps we're expecting too much; after all, if they sign the agreements and put the committees in place, and form task forces with firm instructions to issue reports, well, shouldn't that count for something?

*The above-linked blog, Kill Righty, pinged this Gazette post from a year ago dealing with the subject of the house church movement in China. At that time, there weren't a lot of good things being reported.

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