{"id":36028,"date":"2025-10-13T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=36028"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:17:34","slug":"church-under-siegechinas-crackdown-on-the-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/church-under-siegechinas-crackdown-on-the-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Under Siege:China\u2019s Crackdown on the Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian pastors in China are being rounded up and jailed in a brutal new wave of repression by Communist authorities.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, police launched late-night raids against \u201chouse churches\u201d, underground congregations that refuse to register under Communist Party control.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters, dozens of pastors were detained nationwide, including Pastor Jin Mingri, founder of Zion Church in Beijing, one of the country\u2019s largest unregistered congregations.<\/p>\n

Pastor Jin, 56, is accused of the \u201cillegal use of information networks\u201d, a charge often used to silence Christian leaders. His daughter, Grace Jin, told AP News<\/b><\/a> that her father suffers from diabetes and is being denied medical treatment and legal access<\/p>\n

Church spokesman Sean Long warned that the crackdown marks a \u201cnew wave of religious persecution\u201d, noting that police have questioned over 150 believers and detained around 30 pastors, releasing only a few.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) confirms that China\u2019s government continues to harass, detain, and torture Christians who worship outside state control<\/p>\n

Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Beijing\u2019s War on the ross<\/h2>\n

President Xi Jinping has pledged to make religion in China \u201cmore Chinese\u201d, an ideological campaign that replaces the cross with the Party emblem.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s religious regulator recently banned all unauthorised online preaching or \u201cforeign collusion\u201d with overseas churches, effectively criminalising digital fellowship.<\/p>\n

Open Doors International<\/b><\/a> notes that while around 44 million Christians belong to state-approved churches, tens of millions more worship underground, risking imprisonment to stay true to Scripture.<\/p>\n

Despite censorship, intimidation, and arrest, the underground Church is growing \u2014 fuelled not by political approval, but by faith that endures the fire.<\/p>\n

2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.<\/b><\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s Christmas massacre<\/h2>\n
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Just days ago, Christian Voice reported<\/b><\/a> on the horrific Christmas Day massacre in Plateau State, Nigeria, where over 160 Christians were killed and entire churches razed.<\/p>\n

The Vatican News<\/b><\/a> confirmed that at least 140 believers were slain in attacks that began on Christmas Eve and spread across Bokkos and Barkin Ladi districts.<\/p>\n

A Christian Advocacy group <\/b><\/a>described the assaults as \u201ca coordinated attempt to wipe out Christian communities,\u201d with survivors recounting how pastors were beheaded and villages burned.<\/p>\n

Local advocacy group Church in Chains<\/b><\/a> reported that more than 20 villages were destroyed and thousands displaced.<\/p>\n

The global media\u2019s coverage was fleeting. Few outlets beyond Christian agencies treated it as more than a regional skirmish \u2014 yet the victims were targeted precisely because they bore the name of Christ.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 31:8\u20139 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
\nOpen thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.<\/b><\/p>\n