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Book Reviews
The Shaping of Christianity in China Today
A Book Review
<p>Two book reviews provide Eastern (WANG Jun ) and Western (Richard Cook) perspectives on <em>Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China</em> by Li Ma and Jin Li in which the responses to faith by Chinese Christians in mainland China since 1949 are explored through many interviews.</p>
December 19, 2013
[…] development of Christianity in China over the past 20 years, especially with the new phenomenon of worship services held in houses, office buildings and commercial spaces emerging in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and economically developed eastern coastal cities, more and more Chinese people are, for the first time, walking into churches for Christmas.</p>
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 […]
Increased Persecution? Do Numbers Tell the Whole Story?
<p>Persecution in China a lightning rod for pundits of every persuasion and a topic of vital importance to Christians who grieve for the sufferings of their brothers and sisters. A recent report by China Aid citing an increased number of incidents of persecution in 2012 and claiming that the Chinese government has embarked on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Lead Article
The Hidden China
[…] barbarians and have no wish to be associated with them; they are both puzzled and bitter that they have not won recognition as a separate nationality.” The Eastern Lipo people of northern Yunnan were also officially assigned to the Yi nationality even though their language is much more closely related to Lisu than Yi. […]