Posted on 07/04/2020 3:55:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The communists in communist China long have worked to destroy the Christian church there.
They've required that churches be "registered" with the government, and "approved."
They've attacked, repeatedly, anyone who tries to hold a church service without that government stamp.
And now they've decided to simply go and install themselves on the boards that make decisions for churches.
The report is from the Barnabas Fund, a worldwide Christian ministry to the persecuted church.
It reports on the latest strategy.
It documents how the votes of congregations for their various church committee members simply have been "ignored" by Communist Party officials.
Then they install their own members on those committees and boards.
"Where is democracy?" one Christian in China asked, in the Barnabas Fund report, after two party-approved candidates were foisted on their church committee.
One dispute developed in a church in Linfen, Shanxi province. There two candidates were up for a church board on their sponsorship by the local United Front Work Department.
The four other board members voted against them. The congregation voted against them.
Yet they were installed on the board.
It apparently is the new Template for a Charter of Legal Persons in Religious Activity Venues that took effect last year that "demands that all religious venues establish a 'democratic management committee' consisting of 'clergy members, representatives of religious citizens, and other relevant members,'" the report explained.
It is under the classification for "other relevant members" that party officials become church leaders.
Clergy members confirmed that if they don't follow the state's template, they will be shut down.
Past months have seen hundreds of churches closed, including those that reportedly had approval from the government to operate, the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Not to state the obvious, but I thought this was a story about US churches because the liberalization of many “mainstream” evangelical denominations has been shocking.
That’s what they’ve done to all our other institutions.
Their “long march through the institutions” is all but over. After the churches, there’s nothing left for them to conquer.
Antonio Gramsci was a genius.
So 2 things on this thread will change soon:
1)the same headline but adding “in the US” and 2) the date on top will be next year. God protect us.
PCUSA went to Hell when this happened to it. Same for several colleges like Notre Dame
Never mind about China. Its happening in the good ole USA only on a much worse scale.
Any state university with a Confucius Institute should be shut down with prejudice.
Lots of Catholic Dioceses are moving away from direct pastor control over individual parishes too. They’ve created their own problem by shutting out any conservative elements going through seminary in the past 5 decades.
Any Catholic should look at the statistics of active ministry priests in their own diocese in the past 50 years. Many of them are less than 25% of active priest numbers they had in the late 1960’s. Its no wonder people know very little about Jesus, they’ve sent away all those who wanted to speak about him.
False Prophets. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Same process in America.
Left PCUSA (I was an elder) when they changed the standards so that pastors, elders and deacons were permitted to engage in fornication, adultery and sodomy.
They’d do a better job of running the United Methodist Church, than the proggies in charge of it right now.
Sounds like a fun outfit. /s
Confucius had quite a lot to teach. But yes I understand that the commies are just using that name as a front
It’s admittedly about the least of the problems today but catholic university holds graduation in the Masonic building. More serious than that, the abortion and homo And communist promotions on campuses realty Really need to be terminated!
Sad...
I don’t blame the commies, atheists and infiltrators — in China, or here — that is what they do.
I blame the parishioners who stay on while, and after, this happens. We Christians are given discernment; and we’re told to test the spirits, whether they be of God. Then walk, and choose to assemble together with real Bible believers and Gospel teachers.
As night follows day. This Pope has given Xi the go ahead to manage the Church in China and subordinate God/Jesus Christ to the Communist Party of China. Drek flows outward to the Protestant sects, too.
Yeah, I thought it was great, I could go out and cheat on my wife now that it was sanctioned by the denomination. [/s]
No, I didn’t think that, but I did conclude it was time to get out.
And they wonder why there are so many sexual scandals in the church.
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