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Kinterez:
Chinese Pastor Wang Yi Sentenced to Nine Years In Prison

I will serve my sentence, but I will not serve the law. I will be executed, but I will not plead guilty.”

In what is believed to be the longest sentence against a house church leader in more than a decade, Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Covenant Church in China, was sentenced to nine years in prison for “inciting to subvert state power”, attempting to turn people against the Chinese government, and “illegal business operations.” The charges for business operations relate to the printing and distribution of Christian books by the church, the Voice of The Matyrs, reports.

Pastor Wang’s trial was secretly held on December 26th and the verdict was announced on December 30th. Along with the lengthy prison sentence, he was also fined over $9,000 CAD and denied all political rights for three years. “This is a pure case of unjust religious persecution against a peaceful preacher of a Chinese reformed church,” reports Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid.

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Pastor Yi’s sentence comes just few days after Elder Qin Defu of Early Rain Covenant Church was given four years pprison term for sharing gospel tracts.

As for many of the remaining members of the Early Rain Covenant Church (those who have not been imprisoned), governing authorities recently mandated that these congregants meet with security officials five times a day. Despite the stringent stipulations and heavy oppression, members of the church continue to faithfully meet together, seeking to serve God any way they can.

China has seen an uptick in religious persecution under the administration of President Xi Jinping who took office six years ago. In recent years, the government has demolished crosses, cracked down on house churches, arrested pastors, and put officially-recognized churches under tighter control.

Chinese law requires that places of worship register and submit to government oversight, but some have declined to register, and are thus deemed illegal. These churches are known as “house” or “underground” churches.

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Wang had openly criticized Xi and refused to comply with Chinese government requirements to register with China’s Religious Affairs Bureau. In 2006, he traveled to Washington to meet with then-President George W. Bush, asking for his support in their fight for religious freedom.

Ahead of his arrest, Wang published a letter condemning the “evil” Communist Party for its continued persecution of Christians.

He expressed hope that God would use him to “tell those who have deprived me of my personal freedom that there is an authority higher than their authority, and that there is a freedom that they cannot restrain, a freedom that fills the church of the crucified and risen Jesus Christ.”

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“Regardless of what crime the government charges me with, whatever filth they fling at me, as long as this charge is related to my faith, my writings, my comments, and my teachings, it is merely a lie and temptation of demons,” he wrote in the letter titled “My Declaration of Faithful Disobedience.” “I categorically deny it. I will serve my sentence, but I will not serve the law. I will be executed, but I will not plead guilty.”

Early Rain Covenant Church in China
Please prayerfully uphold Pastor Wang, his wife and family as they now must contend with the implications of this verdict. Pray that justice will still prevail and that this sentence will be overturned. Remember the members of the Early Rain Covenant Church as they seek ways to continue reaching out with the Gospel message in their community.

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The U.S. was quick to denounce the prison sentence this week. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the verdict and called for his release: “I am alarmed that Pastor Wang Yi, leader of Chengdu’s Early Rain house church, was tried in secret and sentenced to nine years in prison on trumped-up charges.”


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I am alarmed that Pastor Wang Yi, leader of Chengdu’s Early Rain house church, was tried in secret and sentenced to nine years in prison on trumped-up charges. Beijing must release him and end its intensifying repression of Christians and members of all other religious groups.

Christianity In China
Explosive growth has characterized the church for at least the past 30 years. About 100 million Christians live in China, but only 30 million are affiliated with the government-authorized Three-Self Patriotic Movement (the state church controlled by the Communist government). The remaining 70 million worship in unapproved house churches. Despite continual pressure and oppression, house church leaders refuse to compromise the Gospel. About 60 percent of the believers in China live in rural areas, and only a few house church leaders have formal theological training or access to Bible study materials, according to VOM.

The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that by 2030, it could have more churchgoers than America.

Officially, the People’s Republic of China is an atheist country but that is changing fast as many of its 2 billion citizens seek meaning and spiritual comfort that neither communism nor capitalism seem to have supplied.

200,000 Tibetans, Including 62 Buddhist Monks, Come To Jesus

The Chinese Communist Party once tried to destroy religion, but it failed, and today, according to some estimates, there are more Christians in China than Communist Party members. Up to 100 million.

Life for Christians In China:
Ten years ago, unregistered churches in China’s “house church” movement enjoyed a measure of acceptance by the government. However, today things are much different. In February 2018, a new religious regulation led to increased government restrictions on unregistered churches. This has resulted in the forceful closure of hundreds of churches, the arrest or detainment of pastors and church members, and the prohibition of online sales of Bibles. If church leaders refuse to join the government-controlled church, false charges are filed against them. It is illegal to teach religion to anyone younger than 18 years of age.

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China is an Atheist state officially, take ur preaching to people who allow it.

Gracespecial101:
The Church is Marching on
We only just Began

Are u a Chinese pastor?

yvelchstores:
shame on you. China is on earth and earth belongs to Jesus!

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The earth belongs to jesus..
Well,he should come and have it...

dominique:
Ehyah, he should have registered his church to avoid government wahala. The rules were pretty clear

It's not as simple as that.
The Chinese government/Communist Party is currently working on their own translation of the Bible where "offensive" themes are removed and things enhancing the communist ideals are enhanced.

Is that the kind of government you'll wish to register with?

hopefulLandlord:

He simply needed to obtain registration in order to preach

So because he failed to collect registration before preaching that's why his trial was secret and judgement was passed very fast on him

Nice one china

I commend the courage of the pastor and other christians in China who have not compromise the calling of Christ.

BTW Registering the church mean it would be under the control of the chineese government.

Right from its inception, the church has always being persecuted even her Lord Jesus was killed because of the truth.
Satan is the god of this dark and sinful world. Jesus is coming back again repent people and believe the gospel, God loves you no matter how much you hate him, Jesus died for you no matter how much you spite him and pierce his heart every day.
#Jesus is coming back#

GoTV:
Even though I'm a born again Christian, i think ee Christians are hypocrites. When the Chinese government banned Islam and were persecuting our Muslim brothers, we Christians were happy thinking it's all about Islam. Now the chicken has come home to roost. I hope they sentence more pastors worldwide to reduce the influence of the fake Jewish religion

You are a fake christain if not....
you would have found out that christainity represents light while Islam is a religion of darkness, light and darkness have nothing together.

I prefer a native doctor or occultist to a Muslim or Jew...
Muslims are pagans just like Jews.
Now go and rededicate your life to christ and know your stand.

shadeyinka:

It's not as simple as that.
The Chinese government/Communist Party is currently working on their own translation of the Bible where "offensive" themes are removed and things enhancing the communist ideals are enhanced.

Is that the kind of government you'll wish to register with?

yep what a horrible step China wants to take, something that's never happened before. good thing the Bible as you have it today has not been written, rewritten , revised, rewritten , translated , retranslated, reretranslated, translated again , had some words removed, had some words added, revised again, then a council decided the parts that are worthy and those that aren't, then revised again , retranslated, reretranslated, handed over to your ancestors,translated again, retranslated again and finally passed on to you.....

hopefulLandlord:
I'd argue that corruption is rife amongst the deeply religious

I sense you need to carefully and patiently research the meaning of the highlighted.

When you are done, let me know.

oponu pastor.. don't worry your skydaddy will come to your rescue, just like he/she delivered paul & silas in the baabull.

Angelfrost:


I sense you need to carefully and patiently research the meaning of the highlighted.

When you are done, let me know.

tell me the meaning then or aren't you committing no true Scotsman fallacy?

Church goers projected to outnumber in US in 10 years time. So the assumption that China is developed despite not been religions is false, the number of Christians alone in China is more than half the entire population of Nigerians.

hopefulLandlord:
what has his age got to do with his point?

a His point reeks of inexperience and immaturity.

PrecisionFx:


Are u a Chinese pastor?

Kinterez:

Chinese with their non tolerance for religion.. It's really unfair.. God give the pastor the courage and strength to persevere this trying time

Allowing religion in that country will ruin everything they have worked hard to achieve

Poloyanabo1:
a His point reeks of inexperience and immaturity.

Show me how it does

May God be with Him

He should have registered the church accordingly. Buh 9yrs imprisonment too is much ooo.

Even in Islam, we have salafs that spoke against the injustice of the government and were imprisoned.

The likes of sheikh Islam ibn Taimiyah. He was able to write more books in the prison which is benefiting us till today... The sentencing gave him more ample time to write more beneficial books for mankind.

But the salafs of those time are not equal to us of today oo . Most ppl of now adays are doings things for there whims and caprices all in the name of religion

double post

May Jehovah to whom all power belongs fight for you and all Pastors in China, putting the enemies of Christianity in China and all over the world to shame in Jesus Name. Amen.

The word of God is being fulfilled every day, wow Lord God your word is truth and never faileth.

Kinterez:

Chinese with their non tolerance for religion.. It's really unfair.. God give the pastor the courage and strength to persevere this trying time

Let people obey law or claim asylum in another country...

Jesus will have China whether atheists like it or not.

GoTV:
Even though I'm a born again Christian, i think ee Christians are hypocrites. When the Chinese government banned Islam and were persecuting our Muslim brothers, we Christians were happy thinking it's all about Islam. Now the chicken has come home to roost. I hope they sentence more pastors worldwide to reduce the influence of the fake Jewish religion

Please back up your allegation of Christians rejoicing over persecution of Islam in China.
Restriction of Islam will always be a positive given their attitude towards others. By the way, we can also deduce the alleged pattern you allege Christians of from Muslims who keep mum when Boko-Haram strikes and muslims trespass.

Atheism can not withstand the name of Jesus.
China will submit to Christ soon.

Two wrongs can not make a right.

When it comes to Spiritual Matters; We need the presence of brain and the absence of it.

Knowledge of Divinity requires logical and illogical channels as well as absence of both.

Oh wow...I had a build up to this story on my bulletin the other day.