CHINA: Increased Persecution

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🗓️ 21 July 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There have been significant changes in China this year, changes that greatly affect our Christian brothers and sisters and how they live out their faith. First, new “regulations on religion” took effect, attempting to give China’s communist government more control over church activities. Secondly, term limits were abolished for China’s President, allowing current leader Xi Jinping to lead the country for many more years.

Listen this week as Brother Blake and Brother Joel share what these changes mean for churches in China, and how Christians are responding to the changes to continue serving Christ in the face of communist oppression. Blake and Joel will also equip you to pray for China’s Christians during these days of increasing pressure.

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0:00.0	In China, believers often face tough choices in living out their faith in Christ.
0:06.0	VOM's brother Blake has talked with believers about some of the difficult decisions they're forced to make.
0:14.0	There was a grandmother who had been taking her grandson to church with her
0:20.0	and the government told this family that the grandmother who was on kidney dialysis,
0:28.0	she would no longer be allowed to continue the dialysis treatments if she continued to bring her grandson to church.
0:36.3	So what a choice.
0:40.3	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:43.2	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:46.7	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:49.6	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:56.5	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
1:01.5	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio
1:03.4	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs radio. My name is Todd
1:07.2	Nettleton and we're in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with two
1:11.6	guests. One is familiar to our longtime
1:15.4	VOM radio listeners. His name for VOM radio purposes is
1:19.3	brother Joel. He is a longtime worker in China and he helps VOM distribute Bibles all over that country.
1:27.6	Our other guest is a first-time guest.
1:30.0	Brother Blake is the Asia Pacific Regional Director for VOM so he oversees our projects in
1:37.0	countries like Indonesia and Vietnam and China and we're going to talk today
1:42.4	about what God is doing in China as well as
1:46.0	what the government in China is doing to try to stop God from what he's doing.
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