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Cults and Christianity in China
[…] Movement National Committee and the China Christian Council has published more than 40 articles related to this topic. Of these articles, more than 10 are related to Eastern Lightning (Almighty God). It could be said that this heretical cult has aroused the most attention of the Two Councils*. This is because Eastern Lightning has been […]
Cults in China
Last year members of the Almighty God sect savagely attacked a customer in a McDonald’s in northeast China after she refused to give them her cell phone number. Formerly known as Eastern Lightning, the Almighty God sect has emerged as one of the most active cults in China.
New Report Highlights Roots of Religious Persecution in China
[…] The increase comes as no surprise, as 2014 was marked by a wave of attacks on church buildings, particularly in the city of Wenzhou and around the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. The general social tightening that has come to characterize President Xi Jinping’s rule contributed to the pressure on religious believers, as did […]
The Life and Ministry of Shen Yiping
Blessed Are Those Who Die in the Lord
[…] Feng were sentenced to re-education through labor. On April 16, 2002, 34 important church workers, including Shen Xianfeng, Shen Yiping, and 20 mission elders were tricked by Eastern Lightning. They were kidnapped and detained in Shanghai, Hubei, Hebei, Xi’an, and Dongbei. Eastern Lightning attempted to force them to abandon their earlier Christian faith, and to […]
Orthodox Doctrine of the Trinity
[…] 蘇穎智, Jiekai “Dongfang fachu de shandian” zhi miansha 揭開《東方發出的閃電》之面紗 (English title provided on copyright page), 3rd ed. (Hong Kong: Heart Publishers Ltd., 2013). Pastor So’s diagram is apparently based on the traditional “Shield of the Trinity” or Scutum Fidei. See “Shield of the Trinity,” Wikipedia, accessed June 24, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_of_the_Trinity. Back to Brief Look at Some of Eastern Lightning’s False Teachings
ChinaSource Top Ten 2013
[…] religion to those under 18. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what the constitution has to say about religion and religious freedom." Eastern Lightning and the End of the World "China's Eastern Lightning cult is back in the news again, thanks to the ancient Mayans. It seems that their calendar […]
April 17, 2014
[…] At a conference I attended in Germany last year, one of the speakers even listed it as a major challenge facing the church in China. Where Did Eastern Lightning Come From? (April 17, 2014, ChinaSource Blog) Eastern Lightning has been a source of distress to mainland churches because of the cult's dedicated efforts to recruit […]
ZGBriefs | March 19, 2015
[…] the Cult Almighty God Church (March 13, 2015, ChinaSource Quarterly) The house churches in China have suffered much under cultic infiltration, especially from AGC, (formerly known as Eastern Lightning or EL), now the largest and most powerful heretic cult in China. While the government has the power and means to restrain AGC’s criminal activities quickly, […]
Editorials
Confronting the Cults
[…] ways in which the church is seeking to face the challenge posed by these cults. We give particular attention to the Almighty God sect (formerly known as Eastern Lightning), whose members were responsible for last year’s savage murder of an unsuspecting McDonald’s customer in northeast China. Officials were quick to take action against the attackers […]
Shining Light on China’s Cults
[…] was vividly illustrated last year in the vicious murder of an unsuspecting McDonald’s customer at the hands of members of the Almighty God sect, formerly known as Eastern Lightning. The parable referenced above provides assurance that false teachers will, in the end, be rooted out of the Kingdom. In the meantime, the church’s best defense […]