But not everyone is happy with this decision. The article goes on to say,
"I think it's a bad idea," said Dick Paasch, 69, from Billings, Montana. "The Chinese Revolution ... in the years 1958-1960, there were something like 26 million people starved to death. Why would we want to celebrate something like that?
"I think the Chinese have come a long way since then, but I certainly wouldn't celebrate the revolution," he said.
Representatives for the building say it won't incur any extra costs to use the colored floodlights, so taxpayers won't have to pay a dime. But tourists thought it would have been better if the building would have stayed white this Wednesday.
"It seems a little out of place in New York City, an American city, having communist colors," said Cathy Crismore of Lancaster, California. "That doesn't seem right."
The Voice of the Martyrs has covered the Christian persecution that happens all the time under the communist regime of China and would ask today that you would remember China in your prayers and especially those who are serving Jesus in that nation.
China is a restricted nation with 7.25% of the population as Christians. There are more Christians in prison or under detention in China than in any other country. The house church movement (unregistered churches), which comprises approximately 90 percent of China's Christians, endures unimaginable persecution, yet stands on its commitment to preach the gospel, no matter the cost
To learn more about China as a restricted nation, click here.
