China's ruler Xi Jinping is still ramping up his persecution of churches.
Last week it was the Early Rain Covenant Church of Chengdu. Its Pastor Wang Yi and 100 congregants were arrested, and the freshmen of its college were sent to "re-education camp."
Xi is exercising his enormous power to silence dissent. Wang was in his cross-hairs not only because the church is not registered with the government, but because he openly opposes Xi's totalitarian controls. He published a call for Christians to resist regulations that contradict Christianity.
"Communist authorities have used the regulations as tools to carry out Jinping’s vision of sinicizing religion in China — which is to force all religions in the country to submit to the authority and teachings of the Chinese Communist party."
"He’s the bravest pastor in China today,” Rev. Hong Yujie, a friend of Wang in Vancouver, told WSJ.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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