Yesterday on Janet Parshall's America Janet discussed a recent meeting at the Press Club where a Chinese Christian came to give testimony about how the house churches have grown tremendously in China. If you're interested in listening to this conversation, please visit http://www.wava.com and go to Janet's archives, hour 3 for September 26th. Or you can become a Parshall Patriot at her website and just get access to her whole show.
The reason I bring this up today is because the Christian Post has an article titled Group Sheds Light on China's New House Church Crackdown which is exposing what is really happening within the house church movement in China.
The Population Management Office of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a public notice recently forbidding all owners of rental housing properties from leasing space to house churches for worship services.
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More specifically, police officers are to warn all owners of rental properties that they should, by their own initiative, refuse to rent their properties to people engaging in “illegal religious activities.”
“This is clearly a new tactic to persecute house churches before the 2008 Beijing Olympics is held,” a Beijing house church leader told CAA.
Please remember Chinese Christians in your prayers and join me in asking the Lord to soften the hearts of authorities and others in places of authority, so that they will come to Jesus also.
