November 01, 2012
...NPC deputy late last month. “According to the law on deputies to the NPC and to local people’s congresses, his post was terminated,” said a statement of the NPC Standing...
...NPC deputy late last month. “According to the law on deputies to the NPC and to local people’s congresses, his post was terminated,” said a statement of the NPC Standing...
...a number of practical considerations that are often lost in the details of ministry transfers. I know of one organization that has made great progress towards increasing local ownership—another term...
...time of this writing). In fact, from day one, BSF’s endeavors to offer its classes to local Chinese people have suffered from disruptions. The formerly designated Chinese host church withdrew...
...that the organization’s goal was to launch a movement while the local partner’s goal was to build stability in the church. The foreign entity was looking for numbers; the local...
...that over the past 20 years, the number of obese Chinese men has grown from 3 percent to 11 percent, while the number of obese women has increased from 5...
...for personal gain. Anti-crime campaigns with quotas for a certain number of arrests can also prompt local officials to crack down on Christian activities that had previously gone on unhindered....
...Research Institute. The number of rural primary schools decreased by 52 percent from 2000 to 2010 while the number of countryside pupils dropped by 37.8 percent, the report said. The...
...in a church in Anhui. "When you see the local need it will become clear: The Chinese church does not lack people or money. What we lack is love." These...
...from the 970,000 who sat for the exam in 2011, as is the number of positions available, slightly up from last year’s 18,000 slots. AFP reports that the number of...
...China will remain the largest mission field in the world. During the next 30 years, China will still contain the largest number of nonbelievers and unreached people.[ ] China has...
FEATURED ARTICLEKey Issues for the Church in China: A Local Perspective (December 5, 2012, ChinaSource)If you asked most Christians in the west to identify the major issues facing the Chinese...
...large number (including Kublai Khan's mother) were professing Christians. Furthermore, in 1294 the Catholic Church sent John of Montecorvino to the capital where he spent thirty-four years as a missionary,...