This is sickening:
A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a Protestant minister, his wife and her brother to prison terms of up to three years for illegally printing Bibles and other Christian publications, one of their lawyers said.The conviction of house church minister Cai Zhuohua, 34, and his family by the Beijing People’s Intermediate Court came days before U.S. President George W. Bush arrives for a state visit.
It’s sad what the Chinese government pushes people to:
A fourth defendant, Hu Jinyun, Xiao Gaowen’s wife, was exempted from criminal punishment on charges of "secretly storing illegal goods" because she made contributions by informing against her sister-in-law, the lawyer quoted the verdict as saying.
Here’s my favorite part, though:
The prosecutor, in the bill of indictment, accused the defendants of illegally printing 200,000 copies of the Bible which were found in Cai’s warehouse but the verdict did not mention a figure.In July, Hong Kong’s Beijing-funded Ta Kung Pao newspaper quoted Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, as saying Cai illegally printed 40 million copies of the Bible and other Christian publications.
So the guy was able to subvert the Chinese with 99.5% success. Sweet.
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I agree…sweet…Getting the good book to million(s) of people is the positive key note. However, unfortunitly, doing the Lord’s work is not always the safest job…nor does it pretend to be. My hat is off to each and all missionaries.
How Ironic. China makes all of our DECORATIONS,LIGHTS and TOYS for CHRISTMAS!!!
I wouldnt be surprised if Wal-Mart has their bibles printed in China. We bought a Manora a few years ago and it said “made in China” on the bottom.
Yes yes… and we merrily keep doing business with this gang of cutthroats…
Where now be the high morality of the right?
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There is no such thing as a gender-neutral translation….only gender-neutral revisions.
What? Making a cogent point about Christian hypocrisy doesn’t get past the censors? Any version of the Christian bible that is not in Greek is a revision. Who’s monitoring this board anyway? The Pope?
I still would like to know which version they translated from.
Wil, accusing LST bloggers or commenters of cheering Chinese religious persecution will certainly NOT make it past “the censors” (in this case, yours truly).
There was no cheering in my post. I frankly feel sadness for the many misguided Christians who populate this blog.
Good day sir,
WB
Great trading partners!
#9 WB,
Is the implication there that you are a “guided” Christian, unlike the rest of us?
#3 - as if the Right is the only people doing business with (and decrying the government oppression of) China?