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30 Jul 2019

They Are Coming! CCP Sends Again Relatives of Church of Almighty God Refugees to Korea to Stage False Demonstrations

Religious Freedom, religious persecution, human rights, Rights to Asylum, Church
 

The CCP harasses again the relatives of CAG refugees in Korea who live in China, luring them to travel abroad to South Korea on July 22-24 next to “search for relatives” and bring them back… to jail.

The Church of Almighty God: Persecuted At Home and Abroad


The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is the largest Chinese Christian new religious movement. Due to its rapid growth, the Church was included in the xie jiao list by the CCP in 1995 and has been heavily persecuted since. CAG members have been subjected to persecution, with frequent cases of arrests and torture. According to the recently released 2019 report of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), “in 2018, the Chinese government harassed and arrested thousands of followers of […] The Church of Almighty God. Many of those detained during the year—whom The Church of Almighty God estimates to be in the thousands—suffered torture and other abuses, in some cases resulting in deaths or unexplained disappearances while in custody.” According to the yearly Report on International Religious Freedom of the U.S. State Department for 2019, covering the year 2018, “The Church of Almighty God reported authorities arrested 11,111 of its members during the year,” against 9,000 from Falun Gong, the second most targeted group. “The Church of Almighty God, the document adds, reported authorities subjected hundreds of their members to ‘torture or forced indoctrination.’” Overall, the document said, “The Church of Almighty God reported authorities subjected 525 of its members to ‘torture or forced indoctrination’ during the year. The Church also reported members suffered miscarriages after police subjected them to ‘torture and abuse’ in detention facilities.”

29 Jul 2019

2019 English Christian Song With Lyrics "Is the World Your Place of Rest?"


Christian Hymn | "Is the World Your Place of Rest?"


I
People who live outside God’s word
and flee the suffering of trial,
they’re all just drifting through the world,
like autumn leaves, blown in the wind.
They flutter here, they flutter there.
They never have a place to rest,
much less God’s words of consolation.
They’re only beggars in the streets,
outside the kingdom of heaven.
They’re wandering from place to place,
though God’s chastisement and refinement
don’t ever follow them.
Can you be sure the world’s your place of rest?
Can you smile with ease in this world
if you’ve avoided God’s chastisement?
And can you use your fleeting joy
to cover up the empty feeling in your heart
that cannot be concealed?
You can fool anyone in your family,
yet you can never fool God.

28 Jul 2019

2019 English Christian Song | "Give Up Religious Notions to Be Perfected by God"


Christian Hymn | "Give Up Religious Notions to Be Perfected by God"


1
If you accept the judgment and chastisement
of the word of God, drop religious ways,
do not use old notions to measure God’s new words,
then you will have a future.
But if you cling to the old things, treasuring them,
there’s no way to be saved, God will never notice you.
In God’s work and word, He does not refer
to the old ways of history and things before.
If you want to be made perfect, you must let go of past things.
What was right or done by God must also be put aside.
Even if it was the work of the Spirit, you must put it aside.
This is what God requires. All must be renewed.

27 Jul 2019

Best Christian Movie | Chronicles of Religious Persecution in China "A Youth of Bloody Tears"


Best Christian Movie | Chronicles of Religious Persecution in China "A Youth of Bloody Tears" (English Dubbed) 


Since it came to power in mainland China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been relentless in its persecution of religious faith. It has frantically arrested and murdered Christians, expelled and abused missionaries operating in China, confiscated and destroyed countless copies of the Bible, sealed up and demolished church buildings, and vainly attempted to eradicate all house churches. This documentary tells the true story of the persecution suffered at the hands of the CCP by the family of Chinese Christian Lin Haochen. Lin Haochen followed in his father's footsteps and believed in the Lord, and as a result, as a child witnessed his village cadres often come to his home to threaten and frighten his parents into abandoning their faith and efforts to spread the gospel. After Lin Haochen's family accepted God's work of the last days, they were persecuted and arrested even more fervently by the CCP government. Lin Haochen's mother passed away from illness as she fled arrest, and Lin Haochen, his father, and his older brother were forced to flee home, and found it nearly impossible to return. What was once a happy, beautiful family was dismembered and scattered by the CCP's persecution …

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26 Jul 2019

Word of Christ of the Last Days | "God Himself, the Unique I: God's Authority (I)" (Excerpt 3)



Words of God | "God Himself, the Unique I: God's Authority (I)" (Excerpt 3)


Almighty God says, "Regardless of how 'powerful' Satan is, regardless of how audacious and ambitious it is, regardless of how great is its ability to inflict damage, regardless of how wide-ranging are the techniques with which it corrupts and lures man, regardless of how clever are the tricks and schemes with which it intimidates man, regardless of how changeable is the form in which it exists, it has never been able to create a single living thing, has never been able to set down laws or rules for the existence of all things, and has never been able to rule and control any object, whether animate or inanimate. Throughout the vast expanse of the universe, there is not a single person or object that was born from it, or exists because of it; there is not a single person or object that is ruled by it, or controlled by it. On the contrary, it not only has to live under the dominion of God, but, moreover, must obey all of God's orders and commands. Without God's permission, it is difficult for Satan to touch even a drop of water or grain of sand upon the land; without God's permission, Satan is not even free to move the ants about upon the land—let alone mankind, who was created by God. In the eyes of God, Satan is inferior to the lilies on the mountain, to the birds flying in the air, to the fish in the sea, and to the maggots on the earth. Its role among all things is to serve all things, and work for mankind, and serve God's work and His plan of management. Regardless of how malicious its nature, and how evil its substance, the only thing it can do is to dutifully abide by its function: being of service to God, and providing a counterpoint to God. Such is the essence and position of Satan. Its substance is unconnected to life, unconnected to power, unconnected to authority; it is merely a plaything in God's hands, just a machine in service to God!" (The Word Appears in the Flesh). 

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25 Jul 2019

2019 English Christian Song With Lyrics | "The Transcendence and Greatness of the Almighty"


Praise God Hymn | "The Transcendence and Greatness of the Almighty" 


Verse 1
Fast as lightning, this world can change
always by God’s thoughts, always by God’s watch.
Things will come, things man never dreamed.
What they’ve long had may slip away.

24 Jul 2019

Chinese Religious Persecution, Harassment of Refugees Abroad Denounced in Seoul


A conference co-hosted by Bitter Winter denounced a global CCP campaign aimed at preventing Chinese refugees from persecuted religious groups from being granted asylum abroad.


Persecution Escalating

China is trying to systematically wipe out all religions which are not controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), refugees and human rights experts told a distinguished audience at the conference “The Long Arm of the Dragon: China’s Persecution of Believers at Home and Abroad,” co-hosted in Seoul on June 20 by the Korean NGO Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL), Brussels-based Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), and Bitter Winter. The experts explained how the CCP aggressively pursues religious believers who leave the country and exerts pressure to block foreign governments from granting them refugee status. The conference marked the United Nations’ World Refugee Day, and included an exhibition of pictures about religious persecution in China, most of them taken from Bitter Winter.

Christian Hymn | To Live a Person Must Have the Truth

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Christian Hymn | To Live a Person Must Have the Truth


I
must have God's words with him
to avoid a dull life.
The light shines from God's word,
without the words of God,
I don't know who I am.
To keep our heart close to God,
we must read His words
and often commune with the truth.
To receive God's approval,
we must seek the truth.
The path of life grows
more magnificent under my feet.
My change of disposition
will be commended by God.
I will continue to strive
to work hard and forge forward.
Success is calling to me.