Christian Fugitives Face Martyrdom In
Communist China
Posted By: Ketchuplover, 3/6/2022 12:49:41 AM
“Jail awaits me,” the pastor of a fugitive Chinese church wrote over an encrypted messaging service. “They’ve accused me of subversion of state power.” Although the 60 religious refugees of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church found sanctuary on South Korea’s Jeju Island in 2019, now the renegade congregation faces imminent deportation back to Communist China after repeated asylum requests have been denied by the left-wing government of South Korea. (Snip) “The Communist Party is the enemy of all cultures and morals,” said Pastor Pan. “This has been proven by history for over one hundred years and is the consensus of mankind."
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“Jail awaits me,” the pastor of a fugitive Chinese church wrote over an encrypted messaging service. “They’ve accused me of subversion of state power.”
Although the 60 religious refugees of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church found sanctuary on South Korea’s Jeju Island in 2019, now the renegade congregation faces imminent deportation back to Communist China after repeated asylum requests have been denied by the left-wing government of South Korea. (Snip)
“The Communist Party is the enemy of all cultures and morals,” said Pastor Pan. “This has been proven by history for over one hundred years and is the consensus of mankind."
Kevin uses one word to describe the first days of the protests in downtown Ottawa: torture.
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Liquor stores across the U.S. and Canada have started throwing out their stocks of Russian vodka in protest of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to reports.
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What exactly is the special ingredient?
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It's time for your red pill. Something smells rotten in Ukraine. The story is rotten, rancid, hinky; the story just doesn't add up.
President Joe Biden and the media desperately want you to believe Russia is the bad guy and Ukraine is a little angel. They want you to fall in love with underdog Ukraine. They want you to support America getting involved on behalf of Ukraine. To get your support, they need the media to sell you a bill of goods. But it just doesn't add up.
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“Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well,” Buttigieg said
Fiona Hill Blames Trump for Putin’s
Ukraine Invasion — Political Divisions
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Ukraine Invasion — Political Divisions
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On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former National Security Council Senior Director Fiona Hill insisted former President Donald Trump, despite being out of office for more than a year, played a role in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Hill argued that Trump’s request for a “personal favor” set the wheels in motion for the invasion.
“[I] think there’s just the one point that sums everything up that you yourself touched on is that President Trump at a pretty critical period, withheld military assistance to Ukraine that was desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” Hill said.
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It's easy for us, who can sit on padded pews in thermostatically controlled churches, or even sit in our pajamas and worship online, to not even think about our struggling brothers and sisters in other parts of the world who do not have this freedom we have. This article is well worth reading. Pray for our fellow Christians! It was particularly interesting to me that over 400 pastors signed their actual names to a document calling on Xi Xinping to repent and accept Christ. Of course, this is only by the power of the Holy Spirit, but it's an example of people boldly praying for their enemies.