{"id":5054,"date":"2011-08-07T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2011-08-06T22:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:28:05","slug":"wall-street-journal-chinas-banned-churches-defy-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/wall-street-journal-chinas-banned-churches-defy-government","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal: China&#8217;s banned churches defy government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On a recent Sunday at the Beijing Zion Church, Pastor Jin Mingri laid out a vision for Christians in China that contrasts starkly with the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s tight reins on religion,&#8221; writes Brian Spegele in the <em>Wall Street Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let your descendants become great politicians like Joseph and Daniel,&#8221; said Mr. Jin, referring to the Old Testament figures who surmounted challenges to become political leaders. &#8220;Let them influence the future course of this country,&#8221; the pastor said in one of several sermons to his 800-member church.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jin is one of a growing group of Protestant leaders challenging China&#8217;s state-run religious system, in an escalating struggle largely unnoticed by the outside world. For the first time, China&#8217;s illegal underground churches, whose members are estimated in the tens of millions, are mounting a unified and increasingly organized push for legal recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The government, fearing that faith in God will soon subvert faith in the party, is responding with a stepped up campaign against the churches and the networks uniting them<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaaid.org\/2011\/07\/china-banned-churches-defy-regime.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On a recent Sunday at the Beijing Zion Church, Pastor Jin Mingri laid out a vision for Christians in China that contrasts starkly with the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s tight reins on religion,&#8221; writes Brian Spegele in the Wall Street Journal. &#8220;Let your descendants become great politicians like Joseph and Daniel,&#8221; said Mr. Jin, referring to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[451,32,1120,966],"tags":[2226,2204,1270],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-christian","category-persecuted-christians","category-persecution","tag-china","tag-christian","tag-wall-street-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wall Street Journal: China&#039;s banned churches defy government<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/wall-street-journal-chinas-banned-churches-defy-government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wall Street Journal: China&#039;s banned churches defy government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;On a recent Sunday at the Beijing Zion Church, Pastor Jin Mingri laid out a vision for Christians in China that contrasts starkly with the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s tight reins on religion,&#8221; 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