Prayers 🙏🙏🙏 for these BRAVE pastors
Pray Without Ceasing
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Posted on 10/13/2025 3:02:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
BEIJING, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Police in China detained dozens of pastors of one of its largest underground churches over the weekend, a church spokesperson and relatives said, in the biggest crackdown on Christians since 2018.
The detentions, which come amid renewed China-U.S. tensions after Beijing dramatically expanded rare earth export controls last week, drew condemnation from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called on Sunday for the pastors' immediate release.
Pastor Jin Mingri, the founder of Zion Church, an unofficial "house church" not sanctioned by the government, was detained at his home in the southern city of Beihai on Friday evening, said his daughter, Grace Jin, and a church spokesperson, Sean Long.
"What just happened is part of a new wave of religious persecution this year," said Long, adding that police had questioned more than 150 worshippers and stepped up harassment at in-person Sunday services in recent months.
Speaking to Reuters from his home in the United States, Long added that around the same time, authorities detained nearly 30 pastors and church members nationwide, but later released five.
About 20 pastors and church leaders remain in detention, he added.
Police in Beihai could not be reached by telephone for comment. China's ministry of public security did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment.
Jin, 56, is being held in Beihai City No. 2 Detention Centre on suspicion of "illegal use of information networks", an official detention notice that Long provided to Reuters showed. The charge carries a maximum jail term of seven years.
Supporters fear Jin and other pastors could eventually be indicted on charges of illegally using the internet...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Christians who were said to be “free” to go to services in churches were watched by a large number of surveillance cameras which identified them. Facial recognition and links to homes and families were aided by the cameras’ images.
“Multiple reports detail instances where authorities have removed crosses and other Christian symbols from churches and homes.”
The “sinicization of religion” policy——
Story excerpt: “Chinese authorities have pressured Christians, including Catholics, to replace images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary with portraits of President Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao Zedong. This has been reported in churches and in the homes of people who receive social welfare payments, with government assistance withdrawn from those who refuse.”
From National Catholic Register.
Communists doing what communists do. I hate communism.
Pope too busy worrying about illegals in the US and Latin Mass to criticize his fellow travelers in commie China.
The only way we can compete with China is doing the same thing!
Bkmk
In the winter the state wouldn’t allow heat in the churches.
Ask me how I know?
RE: Ask me how I know?
Don’t rip my flesh if I ask. Frank Zappa notwithstanding it would be terrible.
One of the saddest things outside of some being “taken for a ride” and never returning for violating the anti-religion rules, is that no children are allowed in churches.
That means the kids will feel alienated by the oddity of parents going to church, will not learn and value what is said in church, will not be religious as they reach adulthood themselves, and as kids they will have to have someone take care of them while the parents are at services, leading to some parents skipping church.
So what else is new?????
My grandfather was a pastor in Hunan China, but fortunately got out before the CCP took over completely. Two of my aunts and an uncle were born there.
CCP=evil, demonic and cannot be trusted!
WOW 😲😲😲
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Thing about Zappa. Hard to nail down a favorite song. From my heart to you doesn’t suck if your into lead vocal/violin.
Chungas revengish.
We’re getting closer and most don’t have a clue.
YEP
That is EXACTLY RIGHT
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Pray up 🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐✝️✝️✝️
(Stay prayed up)
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Matthew 24:42-44
New King James Version
42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the Thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A42-44&version=NKJV
Luke 21:34-36
King James Version
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that Day come upon you unawares.
35 FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME ON ALL THEM that dwell on the face of the WHOLE EARTH
36 WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A34-36&version=KJV
Acts 2;38
John 3:17-18
Revelation 3:10
replace images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary with portraits of President Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao Zedong.
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So, Mao Zedong is a trans? ‘She’ is Mary?
American Christians have it easy (for now) compared to our brothers and sisters persecuted around the world.
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