CHINA: New Wave of Testing for Persecuted Christians

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🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The nation of China has been on the front pages of newspapers and the top of newscasts in recent weeks with widespread protests and a significant shift in the “zero covid” policy. But how will these developments—and the recent elevation of President Xi Jinping to what is essentially a permanent presidency—mean for our Christian brothers and sisters?

Bob Fu, founder, and president of China Aid, will explain how Chinese Christians are affected by these things, and how they are responding. In Xi’s first 10 years in power, religious freedom has been under constant assault—including within China’s state-sanctioned, registered churches. Christians in China know there will be more persecution in the years to come. Our Christian family in China, both young and old, face the decision to either renounce faith in Jesus or have their future taken away from them. How are they preparing themselves, and especially young believers, to withstand that persecution?

Listen for the story of one Chinese Christian woman in prison who said, “I only began loving the Lord when you arrested me.”

Bob will also give listeners an update on two pastors in jail, Pastors Wang Yi and John Cao, and how they are continuing to serve the Lord and grow in faith—even through their incarceration. Pray for rulers and authorities in China, imprisoned believers, the millions of people in China, and for God’s Word to be available to those in this restricted nation. You can write letters of encouragement to brothers and sisters imprisoned for their faith.

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0:00.0	Hounders meeting the Chinese are so fed up, I think that the God created that freedom,
0:07.0	yearning, and spirit reached to the limit, right? They said, enough is enough.
0:12.8	You know, we're done with freedom or die. I mean, that's what the call for.
0:18.8	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:24.6	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the
0:30.6	apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:35.7	Join host Todd Nettleton. We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now
0:41.1	on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
0:45.5	My name is Todd Nettleton. We have the privilege this week of talking with Bob Foo.
0:50.3	He is the founder and the president of the China Aid Association. He is also the author of a book,
0:56.4	God's double agent, the true story of a Chinese Christian's fight for freedom. He is a former
1:03.5	a prisoner for Christ in China, a former teacher at the Communist Party School in Beijing.
1:09.2	Bob, welcome again to Voice of the Martyrs Radio. Thank you, Todd. He's always a joy to be with you.
1:15.7	We're going to talk about persecution of Christians, which is obviously kind of our main focus
1:19.9	here at Vioe Radio. But I want to start out with kind of a big picture look because
1:24.4	there's been a lot going on in China. Even even in the last few days, there's been a lot going
1:28.9	on in China. So let's talk about what is happening. I'm thinking first back to the Communist
1:35.2	Party Congress and President Xi Jinping. Normally, the Communist Party leaders get two terms,
1:41.7	and then they move on. Someone else comes into that role. He just got put in for a third term.
1:47.9	Talk a little bit about that and how significant that is.
1:53.8	Yeah, it's a very significant because he is officially the dictator,
2:00.4	tyrant, and successfully removed the term limit of the presidency from the China constitution.
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