Chinese Grandma Jailed (4 Years!) for Giving Away Bibles and Why You Should Ignore China’s "New" Missionary Ban [China Compass]
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After a brief intro, I begin by looking at why Xi refuses to negotiate with Trump on tariffs (1:50). Next, I talk about the state of Christian publishing in China (8:45), followed by an extended look at some recent persecution of Chinese believers (16:23), Then, after a deep dive into the newly revised rules for the religious activities of foreigners in China (32:15), we finish with our weekly Pray for China segment (54:06).
Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and send a DM. Finally, get access to everything we are involved in, including all my books, @ PrayGiveGo.us.
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Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China
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Nine Chinese Christians Convicted for Illegally Reselling Legally Published Bibles
Newly Revised Rules for the Regulations on Religious Activities of Foreign Nationals
https://www.chinajob.com/city_content/detail.php?id=lqxwidfvei4wBmgglj
Did China Just Criminalize Missionary Work?
https://washingtonstand.com/news/china-cracks-down-on-foreign-missionaries-
https://www.persecution.org/2025/04/04/china-moves-to-formally-ban-missionary-activity/
https://bitterwinter.org/religious-activities-by-foreigners-in-china-new-restrictions-from-may-1/
Pray for China (April 26-May 2): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-april-26-may-2-2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to |
| 0:01.8 | Welcome to China |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laf Feast Network. |
| 0:23.0 | I never know when to cut into the song there. |
| 0:24.5 | I like listening to it, and I hope you don't get too bored with it. |
| 0:28.7 | We used to hear it, man, all the time in China. |
| 0:30.9 | 20 years ago, it was on everywhere overnight, on the long buses, on the trains, in public, |
| 0:37.1 | in restaurants, on the, there were videos on the trains and public in restaurants on the |
| 0:38.0 | there were videos on the walls in the restaurants where they would have music videos |
| 0:41.6 | playing anyway I'm your China travel guide missionary Ben with you again follow |
| 0:47.5 | me on X at China Adventures at China Adventures where I post daily |
| 0:53.1 | reminders to pray for China. |
| 0:55.3 | Daily, morning, and evening, different places, different reminders, different cities to adopt for prayer to pray for. |
| 1:01.7 | X is also the best way to contact me, just follow and send a DM on X, or you can email me. |
| 1:08.4 | I've posted my email in the show notes before. |
| 1:12.3 | I don't always post it here. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm kind of trying to go back and forth on whether or not I want to use actual email on this, |
| 1:20.9 | but you could use X and a DM there. Finally, you can get access to everything else we are doing at praygivgo.us. Pray givego.us. Has links to all the books that I've worked on. My substack, which I post on |
| 1:29.3 | fairly regularly. Actually, just any minute now, there's going to be a new substack post going |
| 1:32.8 | live, which will be this week's Pray for China cities for the next week, starting Saturday. |
| 1:38.3 | Today, it's almost midnight now as I'm recording this, and through the following Friday. |
| 1:43.2 | And so that's going live any moment now. You can follow me |
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