Posted on 04/07/2019 7:10:34 AM PDT by marshmallow
Chinese government threatens mail couriers with hefty fines for circulation of any religious materials, as the goal is to eradicate them completely.
In China, the sale of Bibles has been prohibited, and now it’s not permitted for people to mail them, too. One house church preacher in northern China’s Henan Province told Bitter Winter that in March of this year, he wanted to send a copy of the Bible to his nephew via YTO Express, but one of the company’s employees refused, citing government law prohibiting it.
“It isn’t only us. Other courier companies can’t deliver them either,” the employee said. The courier can earn 2 RMB (about $0.30) for each copy sent, but if the authorities discover them, they’ll be subjected to a fine of 2,000 RMB (about $300).
The preacher was disappointed, considering that the CCP has made it impossible to purchase Bibles as early as March 2018, removing them from the shelves of major regular and online bookstores across China. He never expected that mailing the Bible would not be possible either.
In late 2018, a believer from Wenzhou City, in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, was preparing to mail some religious calendars via Best Express but was rejected. The courier company’s staff said that this is a national regulation; as soon as they are found to have violated this rule, they will be fined. The regulations began to be implemented in 2017.
One courier company employee told me that during the shipping process, some packages are opened for random inspection. If religious books are found en-route, the courier will be fined 4,000 to 5,000 RMB (about $600 to $750), and the courier company will incur a fine of 10,000 to 20,000 RMB (about $1,500 to $3,000). He also revealed that since March last year, all courier firms have.......
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Are Qurans banned?
The pope is with it.
People need to react, and stop ordering things off ebay that come from China. This would probably help change the rules.
If Democrats have their way, soon to come to America.
If Democrats have their way, soon to come to America.
Stop buying from China...
If only Ross Perot had won, how things would be different today.
It was watching the documentary a few years ago and it was about Mission Outreach in China and one of the things they used was small Bible that contained only The Book of Mark. I thought that was interesting as Mark is considered to be the earliest gospel. And it is short and to the point, and it was usually printed and distributed because it didn’t take a lot of effort or cost to print out the entire book. In the environment of China perhaps Clandestine printing might be more easily accomplished with something as simple as the book of Mark.
Back in 2001 I heard an presentation from a missionary to Saudi Arabia who gave a talk about the secret outreach he was doing in that country. It was real cloak and dagger stuff, Bibles hidden in coat linings, USB thumb drives that looked like key fobs (back when customs officials didnt know about USB), stenography in embedded .GIFs in emails. Pretty fascinating.
I think every American Christian should mail a Bible to China. Totally overwhelm them. Go Cloward-Piven on the Great Firewall.
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