Posted on 07/17/2014 8:56:16 AM PDT by wagglebee
In China there are a reported 13 million abortions every year. The government's one-child policy pushes parents into killing their children or paying backbreaking fines, and speaking out against China's abortion policies brings unwanted attention from officials and possible fines or imprisonment.
However, some pro-life activists, including clergy, have decided the risk is worth it.
"More and more Chinese churches are awakening about the Bible's teaching on the murderous nature of abortion, even forced abortion, and engaging the movement to protect life."
According to a report from WORLD Magazine, the pro-life movement in China is small but growing. Priests and pastors are preaching Scripture, showing images of the unborn, and converting the masses.
Mark Li, who started the Christian Life Alliance in 2010, leads a network of people who are connected through church and ministry. WORLD Magazine says that the group has "launched a network of safe houses for pregnant women, abortion rescue teams, a Christian legal aid ministry, a Chinese resource website and a pregnancy help center." Twenty thousand churches have been brought the pro-life message, and each church saves lives on its own.
Women's rights activist Reggie Littlejohn told LifeSiteNews that "pastors in China have been reluctant to preach on life issues because they cannot offer an alternative to forced abortion. They feel caught -- why preach about the Bible's teaching on the unborn, when it will only make women feel worse when they are forced to have an abortion?"
Littlejohn says her group, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, "has found that [saving lives] can only be done very personally, one by one, rather than by a public campaign."
That's what Jonny Fan, a Christian who says that he acts on his convictions, does. Since 2012, he has handed out brochures on June 1, known as Children’s Day, encouraging women not to abort. He has also created marketing materials for pro-life activism, put up bus ads, and handed out fliers. He has been arrested at least once by officials for his work, according to WORLD.
Littlejohn said her group "has an underground network of fieldworkers on the ground" that helps women choose life, and protects women who want to prevent a forced abortion. "Through our network," she says, "we learn of individual women who have had an ultrasound, learned they are carrying a girl, and are planning to abort or abandon her. A fieldworker comes to her door and encourages her to keep her daughter, offering one year of support to help her make that decision."
According to Littlejohn, pro-life activists "have not suffered detention because they are delivering their messages privately. If they were to take a public stand, the way Chen Guangcheng did, they would certainly suffer persecution."
Chen is a blind former Chinese activist who fled the nation after years of imprisonment and torture because he exposed forced abortions and sterilizations. Chen's family faced other pressures from the government.
According to China Aid's Bob Fu, an exile who was critical to Chen's escape to America, the pro-life movement is growing "because more and more Chinese churches are awakening about the Bible's teaching on the murderous nature of abortion, even forced abortion, and engaging the movement to protect life."
"Foreigners' pro-life teaching and trainings in China" are helping, he told LifeSiteNews.
Fu said that while the government is "cracking down" on pro-life activists, the efforts of activists will "definitely" have a positive cultural effect. Additionally, while he was not sure if policy would change because of activists, Fu said "the more people [are] resisting the evil family planning policy, the more [of a] failure [it] will be." He encouraged international pro-life activists and leaders to "pray and work along with the Chinese churches."
China's government says the one-child policy, which includes sex-selective abortions, has been eased in recent months. Littlejohn, however, told the United Nations that the change, which allows couples to have a second child if either them was a single child, was "a minor adjustment."
And here in America we have a president who is hell bent on killing as many babies as possible.
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A Holy Spirit rumble beginning to pick up in China?
Well the Lord said, “where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst.”
China is probably getting more strong believers than the USA has. Granted that in China this is also a strong libertarian move. Chinese Christians are not protesting Chinese permissiveness about abortion, but Chinese tyranny requiring it.
[ A Holy Spirit rumble beginning to pick up in China?
Well the Lord said, “where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst.”
China is probably getting more strong believers than the USA has. Granted that in China this is also a strong libertarian move. Chinese Christians are not protesting Chinese permissiveness about abortion, but Chinese tyranny requiring it. ]
A persecuted people seem to be more awake than a placated people (us)...
Only a small percentage of Chinese are Christian. Perhaps that will change.
China is experiencing a spiritual awakening, hope it spreads around the world.
http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/revival/14745-the-biggest-revival-in-history
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