“The Chinese authorities tolerate Christmas celebrations for their commercial “value” – Santa Claus and economic prosperity, but are intolerant of any celebration of the real meaning of Christmas.” On Christmas Eve of 2014, eight Chinese Christians, including their pastor, gathered at a church member’s house, preparing for a dinner to celebrate this greatest Christian holiday. […]
“In China, Christians suffer all kinds of hardship and even persecution, just because they want to have their own church and freely practice their religion.” December 14, 2014, was a special Sunday for my church – New Life Assembly of God. People from the university town congregated in the temple for the last Sunday service […]
“The context of this case can give us further insights into the twisted intentions of the Chinese government in regards Christians.” Many Americans may be familiar with the case of John List. He was a devout Lutheran and taught Sunday school. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother and three children in their […]
“One should never have to choose between faith, family and freedom” I felt heartbroken after talking about my life as a woman in China and my experience as a Chinese Christian. My friends were happy for me because I was interviewed by John Hall and Kathy Emmons in their radio program on 101.5WORD-FM, Pittsburgh, PA. […]
“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” (Exodus 20:7) I just read an ABC-13 report that nine Chinese nationals, together with others from different countries, illegally crossed the Texas-Mexican border into the United States. Immigration authorities found […]
Hear us, our God, for we are despised. (Nehemiah 4:4) “Think about it – many people in the world cannot go to church today, because they are threatened to be killed or arrested if they go to a church like ours, New Life Assembly of God,” my pastor challenged our minds when he preached about […]
And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” (Ruth 2:2) I grew up in a Chinese family with a strict rule: you had to pick every grain of rice dropped on the floor and eat all the […]
“I can’t help being enormously proud of this country, ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’” On Sunday, July 6, I attended a church service imbued with patriotic sentiment; my first time to commemorate the 4th of July in church in the United States. Church members from different countries together sang […]
A True Story of Chinese Women It was almost midnight. We were awakened by the noise of someone frantically knocking on the door. My aunt, my mother’s younger sister, was being carried by her husband; pale, visibly weak to the point of fainting, and seriously sick. They came into our small apartment followed by other […]
The still unknown Tank Man defying a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Photo by Jeff Widener, AP I graduated from Peking University in 1989. Just a few years ago, when I arrived in the U.S., a friend of mine asked me about Tank Man. “Tank Man?” – I shook my head; he could have […]