Tortured for their Faith in China
Posted Apr 05 2005
4-5-2005 - Tortured for their Faith in China
Tortured for their Faith in China
Yesterday, at a press conference here in Washington, members of the underground house church in China detailed the increasing persecution and torture of Christians at the hands of the Chinese government. Ms. Liu Xianzhi, a 34-year-old member of the underground church, recounted her experience of torture and imprisonment by the Chinese police. She was brutally beaten by the police and forced to falsely accuse her pastor of “raping” her. Her pastor, Gong Shengliang, is now serving life in prison based on the multiple “confessions” obtained through torture. Religious persecution has accelerated in the last few years as the Chinese government attempts to put a halt to the rapid growth of the Chinese church.
These abuses in China have brought a renewed focus by congressional leaders and the UN. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently released a formal opinion in the case of Mr. Yinan Zhang, a Chinese church leader sentenced to two years of “re-education through labor.” He was convicted of “subverting the national government” after police discovered his personal prayer journal. The UN working group concluded that China’s arbitrary detentions are a violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It’s time for policymakers to take a stand for human rights and religious freedom in China. I encourage you to stand with our brothers and sisters in China by urging President Bush and Congress to hold China accountable for its persecution of the Church.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 am
An excellent perspective on the persecuted church can be found by reading “The Heavenly Man” by brother Yun. Brother Yun has a very interesting perspective obtained through many years of suffering and torture while in China’s prisons. His remarks “There is always a purpose behind why God allows his children to go to prison. Perhaps it’s so they can witness to other prisoners, or perhaps God wants to develop more character in their lives. But if we use our efforts to get them out of prison earlier than God intended, we can thwart his plans, and the believers may come out not as fully formed as God wanted them to be. All efforts to help need to be bathed in prayer and rooted in God’s will, otherwise it only seems to make things worse. The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man”. Amen and Amen!!
July 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The only propaganda here is religious propaganda. Religion being merely an institution of lies, myths and superstition. Why do we tolerate religion? We shouldn’t. However religion has always been used to usurp nations, indigenious people from their rightful lands by supplanting their true racial identities with false ones, and geopolitical polarization. From Chinese (which is what they truly are) they are falsely led to believe that they are Christian Chinese and should support Western post-colonial agendas. From Chinese, they may become Muslim Chinese in support of Iran and Emirates sinister plans to dominate all of Asia turning each country into a muslim fanatical nation.
This site is small fry compared to government (UK, US) sponsored propaganda sites like BBC and Epoch Times. The point of conflict is you guessed it. Religion. Their excuse, to assert the rights of foreign nationalities bent on usurping any nation (namely China) or one of its territories, and to deny the rightful heirs to the nation namely the Chinese people themselves proper (without the religious affix or should that be afflictions).
The very basis of all religion has always been unproven myth, lies and metaphysical nonsense. Am I to take the words of these people on any current news event as the truth?
From allegations of torture or imprisonment for demanding (yes DEMANDING) special rights and privileges not as an individual but as a body that originates outside that country in question. No I choose to believe that these people are filthy liars always with an ulterior sinister motive. Buddhism itself is also a foreign element not from China. Its origins lie in India. Islam (Uighur) originates from Iran, Mecca and all the Emirate countries that have been taken by such a deceitful ploy (the most recent success of these vermin can be seen in the declaration of indepence of Kosovo).
“There is only true freedom. Freedom FROM religion.” Do not let these scum twist these words otherwise. Freedom from being influenced by these power hungry scum. Freedom from its dominion. Freedom from being misled by lies, myths, and con-man chicanery that is commonplace among their ilk. Often quoting from their garbage religious text which quotes real events mixed with their non-sensical generic rantings of all things they purport to understand. Why then do we have science if these religious figures have all the answers?
Their second tactic involves labelling an “evil”. Communism is evil. Not it is not. It is an inefficient means to govern a nation, but so is a Democracy. They will then associate all things extremist to that system of government namely nationalism. Oh, but it’s okay if the Democratic nations do it under the synonymous word “pariotism”. And when they attack another country under the guise of liberating that country, what they are really doing is the old time practice of conquering yet another nation in order to fuel their plans for economic expansion, i.e., “making allies” against some “evil”.
They control the media, and are an active participant in the dissemination of lies to further influence your neutral assumptions of things. They would like to control what you see, hear, or have an opinion on or against (or purport to since they would like you to view it from their point of view). I’m not talking about China FYI, although they do it as well, but this has only been reactive to the pro-aggresive actions taken by those violent against China and its sovereign right to rule its own country with NO obesiance to jewish-christian-catholic, islamic, buddhist charlatans. China for Chinese instead of China for Christians, Muslims, Buddhist (falungong ding dongs / nepal-mongoloid halfbreed tibetans as a race? lol). A nation with less liars. I can see no wrong in their motives.