It's Been a Brutal Olympics for Chinese Christians

By Lorna Dueck
The Olympic prayer bands -- those ubiquitous white bracelets known for championing a cause -- were a performance worthy of gold, except for the fact that the Chinese pastor who inspired the idea was arrested just two days before the Games began. The offending prayer bands said, "Pray for China." The Chinese state seems confused about how best to persecute its massive unregulated crowd of Christians. The director of China's State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) is reported to have put the number of Christians in China at nearly 130 million. The various forms of Christianity in China self-report about half that number, while, according to conservative estimates, Christians now exceed the number of members in the Communist Party of China.
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Posted by Editor at August 23, 2008 05:52 PM