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S8 Ep1107: Preview for Later Today: Piero Tozzi examines the repression of Christianity in China, comparing current cruelty to historical Roman persecution. Despite state-sponsored brutality, the underground church continues to grow among 100 million believers. (5)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 July 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview for Later Today: Piero Tozzi examines the repression of Christianity in China, comparing current cruelty to historical Roman persecution. Despite state-sponsored brutality, the underground church continues to grow among 100 million believers. (5)
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Piero Tozzi of the China Policy at America First Policy Institute

0:39.5

comments on the suppression, repression, cruelty of the People's Republic of China's government

0:46.5

towards Christianity and towards Christians in China.

0:51.4

Gordon has an estimate of how many.

0:53.9

And then Piero tells a story about the Roman conversion to Christianity in the 4th century AD by Constantine.

1:02.9

But before Constantine was brutality in the name of Diocletian.

1:07.1

This is a wonderful vision of what is happening in China.

1:14.5

Soon enough. Here's Piero.

1:18.2

Yeah, no, I think that Gordon's estimate of maybe $100 million is probably accurate.

1:25.6

I think that it was at David A Aikman wrote that book, Jesus in Beijing, a number of years ago,

1:33.7

where he compared it to basically the church during the time of Diocletian. If one remembers one's history,

1:43.5

it was under Diocletian that you had this tremendous

1:46.0

persecution of the church, a wave of persecution of the church.

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