DAY 364: GAO ZHISHENG HELD HOSTAGE

Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, disappeared February 4, and was last seen being taken away by a dozen police officers. Gao Zhisheng has been repeatedly kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Chinese authorities, because he has defended the persecuted and has been an unyielding voice for justice in the Chinese courts.

Information From -China Aid Association

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Top Ten Cases of Christian Persecution

Posted 02.02.10

he year 2009 showed Chinese Christian churches thriving in the midst of persecution. In a society where economic booming and innovation are in great demand, the Chinese government and the house churches continue wrestling with each other and drawing attention from all over the world. Nevertheless, the faithful persecuted in China believe God’s love and grace will always strengthen their churches.

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From -China Aid Association

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Human Rights Attorney "Went Missing on a Walk"

Posted 01.19.10

Since mid-December, 2009, ominous rumors have circulated about Gao Zhisheng, hinting that he has died after brutal torture in prison. However, no reports have been confirmed, and the Chinese government continues to refuse comment on his condition and whereabouts. A friend of ChinaAid in New York recently notified us about a serious development with Gao's daughter, Gege. Gege had been reportedly “pale and tired-looking” for months, fearing her father would be killed in prison. After hearing a rumor of Gao’s death just before Christmas, Gege became so emotionally distraught, she was forced to be hospitalized. She remains fragile and under medical care in a New York hospital.

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From -China Aid Association

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People of China

The Amdo People

Several mission agencies worked in the Amdo area prior to 1949. At least five small churches consisting of Amdo Tibetans remain today. One report optimistically estimates as many as 10,000 Tibetan believers near Hezuo. Approximately 200 Tibetan believers attend a church in Lintan County in southern Gansu, but they are Jone Tibetans, not Amdo. Cecil Pohill of the China Inland Mission started a mission station in Xining in 1888. Later he "opened up Songpan as a center for Tibetan work." In 1922 it was reported, "The confidence of the people has to a great extent been achieved, and not a few have an intelligent knowledge of the way of salvation." In 1986, "A few Christian households in Gansu Province gathered to worship during a Chinese New Year's celebration.

Click Here To Read More About The Amdo People of China from the Joshua Project

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Beijing Arrests Man Who Helped Park

Posted 01.19.10

Chinese authorities have arrested a man who, on Christmas day, helped US missionary Robert Park cross illegally into North Korea. Radio Free North Korea reported that he was detained last Friday in Yanji, Jilin province. He is identified only by the surname Kim, and is said to have guided Park to the border and took video footage of him praying on the frozen river before crossing.

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From -Asia News

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19 Christians Arrested

Posted 01.12.10

With the turn of the New Year, a wave of persecution has struck Han and Uyghur Christians alike in the ethnically and religiously charged Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. According to ChinaAid (www.chinaaid.org ) farm leaders and police on December 25, 2009, broke into the home of Wang Qiyue, a 71-year-old widow, disrupting the Christmas gathering and ransacking her home.

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From -Assist News

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The Story of a Village Doctor

Posted 01.12.10

The Amity Foundation has supported the professional training of so-called “village doctors” (rural health workers) since 1989. More than 16,000 people were trained as part of this Village Doctor Training Program until 2000, when the duration of a full course was doubled from one and a half years to three years, and almost 15,400 more since then. The three-year course is a distance learning course. Amity’s Village Doctor Training Program is now running in 11 Chinese provinces: Jiangsu, Anhui, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Hainan, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.

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From -Amity Foundation

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