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As China continues its crackdown on religion, Christians in the Communist country are fleeing for their lives.

China’s ruling Communist Party has carried out a widespread crackdown on all religious institutions in recent years, including bulldozing churches and mosques, barring Tibetan children from Buddhist religious studies and incarcerating more than a million members of Islamic ethnic minorities in what are termed “re-education centers.” President Xi Jinping , who is also party leader, has ordered that all religions must “Sinicize” to ensure they are loyal to the officially atheistic party or face the wrath of the Communist regime.

Liao Qiang, who fled from Early Rain Covenant Church after it was raided and targeted by the government for its opposition to Xi and the party, is now in Taipei, Taiwan, hoping to get asylum in the United States until China reverses the anti-religious surveillance.

More than 100 members of Early Rain were taken into custody from the church or their homes on Dec. 9 and 10, according to Human Rights Watch. Those detained included Wang Yi, the pastor, who made a point of holding a prayer service on June 4 each year to commemorate the 1989 bloody crackdown on democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, which China’s government has tried to erase from history. Since then, they have been under constant Orwellian watch under the state.

Ren Ruiting, Liao’s 23-year-old daughter, told the Associated Press she had to report her whereabouts to police using social media whenever she left her home and was informed that her safety would not be guaranteed.

“That’s when I knew it was no longer safe for us here, and that my children were most in danger,” Liao said after Sunday’s service, attended by about 30 people, at the small Reformed Presbyterian Xinan Church in Taipei….

[E]xperts and activists say the Chinese government is now waging the most severe suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedoms were granted by the Chinese constitution in 1982.

(Excerpted from Fox News.)

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Helen
July 17, 2019

Father God, Holy, Sovereign, Majestic full of mercy and loving kindness, thank You for faithful totally surrendered followers of Jesus Christ. May the Light glow even brighter in them drawing many to Truth. Lord God, You are faithful to multiply believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and to establish Your Word in them. I am inspired by their Love of You and for one another.
May Your persecuted church flourish. Amen

Linda Hoover
July 15, 2019

When my husband and I were in China some 12 years ago on a short term mission trip, our Chinese interpreters didn’t want us to pray for them to prosper. They didn’t want to become apathetic as they saw the US church to be, but they wanted to stay on fire for Jesus, so Lord I pray they do stay on fire, and I also pray that you’ll protect them now and restore their freedom to worship like we have that freedom. Please, Lord, bless our Chinese brothers and sisters and convict Chairman Xi of his sins and show him the dangerous position he’s in and that he’ll stand before you and answer to You someday. Let him know the true fear of the Lord and grant him grace to repent. …in Jesus name. Amen

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