Posted on 01/15/2018 5:49:16 PM PST by marshmallow
The ecumenical delegation will be in the country from January 7 to 16. Meetings scheduled with the authorities of the Religious Affairs Office and with the Three-Self Patriotic Movement; preaching in the oldest Protestant churches in Beijing; visits to Shanghai and Xian. But unofficial Christians (80 million) are more numerous than the official ones (20 million) and criticize the Movement’s subjection to the Party.
Beijing (AsiaNews) - The Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Pastor Olav Fykse Tveit, will visit China from January 7 to 16. This was announced by the press office of the ecumenical body based in Geneva. No visits or meetings with unofficial Protestant Christians are included in the program, although they make up the majority of Protestants in China.
Olav Fykse Tveit will be accompanied by the WCC president for Asia, Dr. Sang Chang, and the executive secretary for the interreligious dialogue program, Dr. Peniel Rajumkar. The visit, deemed "historical", aims to launch celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the WCC.
The program includes a visit to the Chinese Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. The latter is an inter-denominational assembly of Protestant Churches, unified by Mao Zedong, which gathers official Protestant believers under one umbrella.
The delegation will visit the East China Theological Seminary in Shanghai and the Xian Shaanxi Bible School. Meetings with the state administration for religious affairs are also scheduled.
In Beijing, the general secretary will preach on January 7 in the Chongwenmen church (see photo); Dr. Chang will preach on January 14 in the Gangwashi church. Chongwenmen Church is one of the oldest Protestant churches in China, built by American Methodists in 1870. In 1900 the church was destroyed in the Boxer rebellion and then rebuilt in 1904. Closed during the Cultural Revolution, it.....
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Weren’t the WCC and the National Council of Churches both communist front groups?
In the long run this is no help at all for genuine believers in Christ in China. This is just religio-political theater. The “preaching” will not be of the Cross of Christ. Probably a lot of lip service given to a “Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4).
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“Weren’t the WCC and the National Council of Churches both communist front groups?”
The FBI said they were.
The WCC never “displeased” any communist government from Moscow to Peking, Havana to Managua, Zimbabwe to So. Africa.
Look up their history re the Vietnam War (sided with Hanoi, the Pathet Lao and Sihanouk’s Khmer Rouge controlled mini-opposition group). The same for Zanu and ZAPU in Rhodesia which became a slaughterhouse under Marxist Mugabe, with the WCC’s blessing. The same for So. Africa.
Nothing bad about Castro’s dictatorship. Nor that of Ortega or Chavez/Maduro.
The NCC was the US affiliate of the WCC and just as Marxist friendly. There wasn’t a communist movement or country they didn’t like and support with the exception of No. Korea and the Khmer Rouge (the NCC apparently preferred Hanoi, Peking and Moscow over the “Uber Maoists” (i.e. the True Maoists).
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