Chinese scholar to Americans: Let go, and let the church develop in its own wayMissionaries 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 PrisonIt’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 MartyrsWhatever 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)