There is no doubt that God is at work in China. China has experienced the fastest growing church movement in history. Approximately 20,000 people become Christians in China every day.
But the persecution is not over. Christians are still regularly arrested and sent to prisons and labor camps.
All churches are required to register with the government, and those that refuse are considered subversive. Yet those who register are forced to comply with government-approved pastors and doctrine, which many times contradict correct biblical teaching.
Christian Aid supports the explosive growth of Christianity in China. As of 2007, Christian Aid has helped to establish 129 Bible institutes in China—the first of which was founded in 1990.
Through Christian Aid supporters many Bible institutes have been launched throughout China. In 1992 two indigenous Bible schools received support and today, steady contributions from Christian Aid supporters have resulted in 132 active training schools, at least one in every province!....
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Christians were fired from their jobs, expelled from schools and imprisoned. Their homes were plundered, and they were publicly humiliated. They faced torture and inhumane conditions in hard labor camps. Their countrymen rejected them, and they were falsely accused as American spies, counterrevolutionaries and criminals....
In the first century AD until about 500 AD the spread of Christianity traveled from the Middle East to most areas throughout the Roman Empire. By the time Islam was established in Mecca (sometime after Muhammad’s death in 632 AD), Christianity had already reached the western and northern territories of Europe. During the Middle Ages (approximately 500 AD until about the 15th century), Europe became the center for Christianity....