By Didi Tang BEIJING (AP) — The pastor of a Christian church in central China was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday (July 4) in what supporters say is a crackdown aimed at curbing fast-growing religious activity, his lawyer said. Zhang Shaojie of the Nanle County Christian Church in Henan province was convicted…
By William McKenzie (CNN) – Early on the morning of November 28, 2007, Jia Weihan was forced to think the unthinkable: Was her father really a bad man? At the time, she was an 11-year-old attending a school in Beijing that taught her to respect the communist authorities. When 30 or so police officers arrived…
By Stoyan Zaimov A U.S. religious rights group said that China’s recent demolition of Sanjiang Christian Church in Zhejiang province is evidence that the government is trying to stop the rapid growth of Christianity in the world’s most populous nation. “I suspect it is a well-orchestrated campaign in order to contain the rapid growth of…
Review by Melanie Kirkpatrick Bob Fu is probably the world’s best-known Chinese Christian. He lives in exile in Midland, Texas, where he runs the nonprofit organization ChinaAid, which supports human rights in his homeland. ChinaAid has been successful in extracting persecuted Christian leaders and political dissidents from China to safety in the West. In his…