Analysis of Persecution in China, Part 1

While many Western Christians believe that persecution is a main story in China today, China Resource Center President Mike Falkenstine shows us why Persecution is not the main story.

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CreateWorship, The point is that persecution is not the main story. Each incident is important and involves real people who are suffering for Christ. But even if there were 770 incidents (10X the # China Aid reports) of persecution in China in 2009, it will still be well less than 1% of all Christian activity(.000066%). There would have to be 1.17mil persecution events for it to equal 1% of all activity, which would still mean that 99% of all Christian activity in 2009 suffered no persecution.

[CreateWorship]

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Anyone working with Chinese house churches knows there were substantially more than 46 incidents of persecution in 2006, even as there were more than 77 in 2009. ChinaAid’s own data also suggest that persecution is increasing (the number of people abused has increased 90%).

While God is doing many awesome things throughout China, we dishonor those who suffer and take pressure off their persecutors when the West says, in essence, “It’s not really that bad.”

[CreateWorship]

Dear Mike,

Thanks for all you do for God's glory in China! God’s Kingdom is moving forward mightily and is cause for great rejoicing!

I'm afraid by using ChinaAid's incident count of persecution your analysis of persecution in China is essentially flawed. ChinaAid is a wonderful organization, but their data is far from comprehensive (I don’t believe they suggest that it is either). In 2006, ChinaAid reported 46 incidents of persecution.