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A Jerusalem Lost

Melanie Kirkpatrick's 'Escape from North Korea' describes how the country descended into tyranny and madness, and why its people want out.

Flight from North Korea

Asia's underground railroad has deeply Christian origins, says journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick.

'God's Double Agent'

One-time atheist and now head of ChinaAid, Bob Fu believes China may soon have one of the largest populations of Christians worldwide.

Asian American Religiosity

A new survey's findings on the differences between Asians and Asian Americans.

Flickers of Hope for Some of the World's Longest Running Persecuted

Home to one of the longest running civil wars in the world, recent gestures offer cautious hope to Burma's Christians.

Persecution Prompts Missions Agency to Transform

Operation Mobilization India transforms itself into a local witness.

Interview: Chai Ling on Saving China's Daughters

Each day in China, 35,000 baby girls are aborted and 500 women commit suicide. One freedom fighter won't take it any longer.

Nepal Agrees to Give Christians a Cemetery

Nepal's small Christian community had formed protests demanding government allocation of land to bury their dead in crowded Kathmandu.

From Russia, with Love

Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion offers evangelicals more than an olive branch.

Vietnamese Authorities in Hanoi Cancel Luis Palau Easter Celebrations

Local officials prevent events featuring U.S. evangelist Luis Palau.
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Chinese scholar to Americans: Let go, and let the church develop in its own way
Missionaries have often tried to recreate their version of church abroad. But for Christianity to flourish in another land, it must adapt in its own way, says Xi Lian on Christianity in China. (Faith & Leadership)
World's 2012 Daniels of the Year: Chinese Christian Activists in Prison
It’s a new day for China’s Communist leadership, but not for the dissidents the government imprisons. They linger in remote jails, beaten, forgotten, and cut off from work, fellowship, friends, and family. WORLD’s 2012 Daniels of the Year are these outspoken Chinese Christians and their long-suffering loved ones. (World)
They Remember Their Martyrs
Whatever Westerners choose to forget, the Pacific martyrdoms remain vividly alive for the thriving churches of those regions, now wholly under local control. Taking China and the Pacific Rim nations together -- Japan's abortive empire of the 1940s -- we count at least 220 million Christians, a tenth of the global total of believers. And they remember their martyrs. (RCR)

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