EARLY this morning—for viewers in China—the New York Knicks of the new Taiwanese-American hero Jeremy Lin played against the Dallas Mavericks and with them China’s current standard-bearer in the NBA: the 7-foot-tall Yi Jianlian, a high draft pick who has proven a disappointment in America. Mr Yi’s Mavericks lost the game, 104-97, but the bigger [...]
There are millions of Christians in Syria, who probably have the Russians and Chinese to thank that they may live there a little longer. The Security Council vetoes, a fortnight ago, on a resolution calling upon Syria’s dictator to step down, and supporting an Arab-sponsored plan to “end the violence,” put paid to any immediate [...]
HANGZHOU, China — The clearest sign that Jeremy Lin’s appeal has spanned the Pacific to mainland China may lie not in the 1.4 million Chinese microblog messages mentioning him in recent days, but in a rare failure to meet demand here in the heart of one of the world’s largest centers of pirated garment manufacturing. [...]
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By the end of the year, Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping, who visits the United States this week, will have been installed as China’s President. As the era of Xi’s rule begins, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and other top Administration officials should tell him directly that America’s historic commitment to human rights cannot be [...]
“His jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones,” said Zheng Xiaojun, a 24-year-old clerk here in the capital of Zhejiang province, near Shanghai. Lin’s stunning success with the Knicks over the last week and a half has captured the imagination of the Chinese, from Communist Party bosses to the often-persecuted Christian minority. He [...]
Posted February 14, 2012 11:38:25 Photo: Gao Zhisheng was arrested in February 2009. (Stringer: Reuters) The wife of leading Chinese dissident and lawyer Gao Zhisheng has voiced fear over his whereabouts, say she has no way of knowing if he is still alive. Geng He, who fled to the United States with the couple’s children [...]
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with reporting from Burma Most Kachins are Christians.Via The Kachin Media RANGOON, BURMA (BosNewsLife)– Burmese troops kill or torture civilians and destroy churches and even entire villages of the predominantly Christian Kachin minority despite pledges from Burma’s nominally civilian government that it seeks ceasefire agreements with [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — Some North Koreans have been able to escape from the Communist country and its strict human rights violations. Kim Eun Jin is one of those survivors. The 31-year-old was born in Pyongyang, North Korea. She was part of the nation’s secret underground church, and her story has never been told until [...]
THERE was a time when Devon Chang had difficulty reconciling his two chosen faiths: Christianity, which he embraced in 2005 at the age of 19, and the Communist Party of China, which had embraced him a year earlier. Did his submission to an almighty God not mean he must renounce the godless club of Marx [...]
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. A comprehensive Pew Forum study last year found that Christians are persecuted in 131 countries containing 70% of the world’s population, out of 197 countries in the world (if Palestine, Taiwan, South Sudan, and the Vatican are included). Best estimates are that [...]
Contact: Lyn Perez, Reformed Theological Seminary, 407-366-9493, lperez@rts.edu CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 7, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — The following commentary is submitted by Dr. Michael A. Milton. A sinister wave of crime is sweeping American university campuses. Even the most prestigious universities like Vanderbilt University in Nashville are not exempt. Indeed, these types of criminal activity [...]
A Syrian woman presents a national flag to Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun during a mass held at a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus on January 9, 2012. (Credit: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images) This story originally appeared on Global Post. DAMASCUS, Syria — As the announcement was made Saturday evening that Russia and China had [...]
Tweet Email Tweet Email BEIJING, CHINA (Worthy News)– Chinese authorities have stepped up their “longstanding opposition to Christianity” in China last year, an influential human rights group said in comments monitored by Worthy News. In its annual report, U.S.-based China Aid Association (CAA) cited figures that it said “showed a dramatic worsening of government persecution [...]
A United Nations resolution that Washington and its allies called the best chance to stop Syria from sliding into full-fledged civil war went down to defeat, dashing hopes for a political settlement as death tolls soar in the strategically situated Arab nation. Security Council vetoes by superpowers Russia and China on Saturday doomed the [...]
By BosNewsLife Asia Service Chinese Christians keep their faith amid crackdown, report suggests. BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)– Chinese authorities have stepped up their “longstanding opposition to Christianity” in China last year, an influential human rights group said in comments monitored by BosNewsLife Thursday, February 2. In its annual report, U.S.-based China Aid Association (CAA) cited figures [...]
Contact: Bob Fu, President, Bob@ChinaAid.org; Mark Shan, Spokesperson, Mark@ChinaAid.org; both with China Aid Association, 888-889-7757; 267-205-5210 cell; LA Office: Eddie Romero, 323-521-6777, ChinaAid.LA@gmail.com; www.ChinaAid.org; www.MonitorChina.org MIDLAND, Texas, Feb. 2, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Chinese authorities stepped up their longstanding opposition to Christianity in China in 2011, China Aid Association said in its annual report released on Wednesday, [...]
A very short dragon slithered through Belmont Center on Friday morning. Plymouth Nursery School students, ages 3 to 5, paraded through the center holding up the majestic animal, made out of papier-mâché and jersey material, in celebration of Chinese New Year. Although the parade has become an annual event for more than 15 years, the [...]
e-mail this to a friend printable version » 02/01/2012 13:21IRAQ – CHINAKirkuk: Christians in prayer for release of Chinese bishops and priestsby Louis Sako *Msgr. Sako, AsiaNews joins the campaign and calls on the local community to show “sincere and fraternal” sympathy and closeness. In the persecutions and looking to the martyrs, the prelate explains, [...]
By Michael Newberger | gargoyle@flagler.edu Hours before the Republican debate in Jacksonville on Jan. 26, Florida Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told the grassroots organization Veterans For A Stronger America that he feels the most pressing threats against the United States are recent advancements in Chinese military strength and radical Islam.Video by Joshua [...]
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Sunday that Sudan and China had “initiated an emergency response” but did not elaborate, saying only that Sudanese authorities were trying to “locate and rescue the missing Chinese nationals.” The rebel raid in Sudan coincided with a visit to the region by a senior Chinese official and the opening [...]
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Sunday that Sudan and China had “initiated an emergency response” but did not elaborate, saying only that Sudanese authorities were trying to “locate and rescue the missing Chinese nationals.” The rebel raid in Sudan coincided with a visit to the region by a senior Chinese official and the opening [...]
The Prime Minister at a Coptic church in Mississauga last year. RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR It is wrong to accuse Stephen Harper of mixing church and state just because he wants to promote religious freedom worldwide. First, church and state are not all that separate in Canada. Why else do you think Ontario taxpayers fund Catholic [...]
Contact: Bob Fu, President, Bob@ChinaAid.org; Mark Shan, Spokesperson, Mark@ChinaAid.org; both with China Aid Association, 888-889-7757; 267-205-5210 cell; LA Office: Eddie Romero, 323-521-6777, ChinaAid.LA@gmail.com; www.ChinaAid.org; www.MonitorChina.org LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — A Chinese Christian businesswoman from Canada who visited China late last year was kidnapped and tortured by Chinese state security agents after she visited [...]
Nothing illuminates the inconsistency, and even hypocrisy, of South Africa’s foreign policy than the divergent approaches it adopts towards Tibet, a province of China, and what is now the newly independent African state of South Sudan. The current controversy about our government’s delay in issuing a visa to the Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, to [...]
“It’s like a miniature Christian bookstore,” said Robert Frank, Global CEO of Bible League International, an Illinois-based non-profit evangelical ministry dedicated to training church leaders using the Bible. The digital ministry continues the historic work of the Bible League, which went international after World War II when Gen. Douglas MacArthur asked U.S. Christian groups to [...]
Contact: Bob Fu, President, Bob@ChinaAid.org; Mark Shan, Spokesperson, Mark@ChinaAid.org; both with China Aid Association, 888-889-7757; 267-205-5210 cell; www.ChinaAid.org; www.MonitorChina.org LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ – With the assistance of ChinaAid and a number of churches in the United States, the wife and child of well-known Chinese political prisoner and Christian Guo Quan have left China and [...]
Sudanese Christians (Photos by Margie Nea) Sudan (MNN) ― Pastors could be arrested for preaching in their own pulpits, if the government of North Sudan has its way. According to a report from Compass Direct News, Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments wants all churches in the north to provide their names and contact [...]
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Published on Friday 20 January 2012 09:44 A PLAN to honour a British missionary who is virtually unknown in the UK could mean an unlikely influx of Chinese tourists to Barnsley. James Hudson Taylor is not even a household name in the town where he was born and preached in the 19th century. But he [...]
AFP/Getty Images Christian Bale arrives on the red carpet for the December ‘Flowers of War’ screening in Beijing. “The Flowers of War” (金陵十三钗), the heavily promoted Chinese movie about Japan’s brutal occupation of Nanjing in 1937 starring Christian Bale, failed to make the short list of films competing for this year’s best foreign-language film at [...]
(UKPA) – 3 hours ago A plan to honour a British missionary who is virtually unknown in the UK could mean an unlikely influx of Chinese tourists to Barnsley. James Hudson Taylor is not even a household name in the South Yorkshire town where he was born and preached in the 19th century. But he [...]
BY BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—China on Tuesday sharply criticized comments by the U.S. ambassador to Beijing that China’s human-rights record is deteriorating, adding to tensions between the two nations ahead of a sensitive visit by China’s likely next president. U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke told television interviewer Charlie Rose in an interview that aired on Monday that [...]
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Who wins Taiwan’s election today could have crucially important consequences for how Beijing deals with Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway province of China. Interestingly, how China reacts to the vote could have implications for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who will visit Beijing next month. What’s at stake is essentially a matter of whether Taiwan’s [...]
After traveling almost 2000 miles, Gao Zhisheng’s brother and several other family members arrived at Shaya Prison in China’s western Xinjiang Autonomous Region. But prison authorities refused them access to Gao. Gao Zhisheng, a self taught lawyer who defended vulnerable groups such as house Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, has been missing for 20 months. [...]
Democratic Progressive party supporters cheer at an election rally this week. A DPP victory would be awkward for Stephen Harper’s government. (Jan. 12, 2012) PATRICK LIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The world keeps a close watch on Taiwan’s elections because of their potential to inflame one of the planet’s dormant hot spots. The stakes for Taiwan, China, the [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Human Trafficking Awareness Day is being marked today, Jan. 11, nationally and internationally. CHINA (BP) — The young Chinese woman steps from a back room into the soft, pink light of the small brothel. She adjusts her short dress and black stockings. A middle-aged Chinese man follows a few steps behind. Under the [...]
Enlarge image Red Kite Capital co-founder, Michael Farmer Daniel Stier/Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg. Michael Farmer, Red Kite Capital co-founder and Conservative Evangelical poses for a photograph in his office in London, on December 14, 2011. Michael Farmer, Red Kite Capital co-founder and Conservative Evangelical poses for a photograph in his office in London, on December [...]
BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese authorities on Tuesday prevented relatives of prominent dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from visiting him in prison, his brother said. Gao, who has defended some of China’s most vulnerable people including Christians and coal miners, was arrested in February 2009 and has been held largely incommunicado by authorities except [...]
AFGHANISTAN: What Is At Stake Here NIGERIA: The Same Old Incompetent Crap INFANTRY: Snipers Rule SUBMARINES: It’s Worse Than It Sounds WINNING: The Friendly Skies Of Waziristan INTELLIGENCE: Iran Gets Game IRAN: The Illusion INFANTRY: Learning To Make The Most Of Portable Artillery NAVAL AIR: BAMS In Action PHILIPPINES: China Comes By SUBMARINES: Oscar Shifts [...]
DID you know there were originally six Kings, not three? Only three reached Bethlehem. The 4th went to the USA; the 5th to China, and 6th to the Philippines. They were: BURGER KING, CHOWKING and TAPA KING, respectively. *** Of course, that’s only a joke. Today we celebrate the feast of the Magi or Epiphany. [...]
North Korea is a difficult place to spread the Gospel. In the last year, at least three Christian activists working on the border have been stabbed by poisoned needles, likely wielded by North Korean assassins; one, a South Korean pastor who helped smuggle North Koreans out of China, died by the time he reached the [...]
Persecution hotspots for 2012 identified Release partners also foresee worsening persecution in Pakistan, India, Iran, Central Asia and Nigeria – where scores of Christians were killed and injured in Christmas bomb attacks. A growing number of Christians are likely to be imprisoned for their faith in 2012 says the charity in the latest edition of its [...]
Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressing supporters with his family on Tuesday. As the U.S. prepares to embark on a year of electioneering, what does it all mean for relations with China? With the first Republican primary in Iowa just completed, China hasn’t yet become a focus of the campaign. But the front-running [...]
Churches have been attacked in several Islamic nations including in Iraq. By BosNewsLife News Center with reports from Africa and Asia JAKARTA/ABUJA/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)– North Korea leads a list of nations where “Christians face the most severe persecution”, but “Muslim-majority” countries represent nine of the top 10 amid spreading Islamic extremism around the world, a [...]
BEIJING (BP) — Beijing authorities detained 48 members of a large persecuted house church on New Year’s Day, marking a total of more than 1,000 church members who have been taken into police custody during the church’s 38 weeks of attempting to hold outdoor worship services. “By arbitrarily detaining peaceful religious believers in the capital [...]
Comments (View) Text Size: A A Email Share The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly number exceeding one billion for the first time. According to figures from app analytics firm Flurry, there were 1.2 billion apps downloaded to Android and [...]