China: Banned from Singing Jesus: CCP Raids House Church

Join Us as We Walk with the Persecuted Faithful

This Week: 30 officers raid an underground house church in Jinzhai County and ban singing to Jesus. We hear from Pastor John Cao directly, “Help me come back.” Days before President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, Chinese authorities raid Beijing’s Jiaquan Church. And advocates confront CCP repression on the eve of the Trump-Xi summit.

This is the reality believers are facing right now in China.

Terminally Ill Pastor John Cao Speaks Out!
“My life might be in its last stage. If I meet the Lord here in China, I would like people to remember me as a faithful servant of Jesus Christ… Looking back, I have never regretted my journey. Given another opportunity, I would come back to China again...” Read Pastor John Cao’s Plea Here

Banned from Singing Jesus: CCP Raids House Church
Chinese authorities raided an underground house church in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, on September 16-17, confiscating phones, deleting footage, and ordering young Christians to replace hymns naming Jesus with songs praising the Communist Party. About 30 officers led by police chief Wang Xianjie restricted believers’ movement. Continue Reading….

Unregistered Church Faces Detentions Days Before Xi–Trump Talks
Chinese authorities have reportedly detained multiple pastors and coworkers from Beijing Jiaquan Church, an unregistered urban house-church network with more than two decades of ministry and more than 1,000 believers across Beijing and other cities. ChinaAid has firsthand accounts but has not yet confirmed names, numbers, locations, or charges. Continue Reading…

Advocates Confront CCP Repression on the Eve of the Trump-Xi Summit
Days before Xi Jinping met President Trump, Ambassador Sam Brownback told a Washington forum that China is “at war with faith.” Advocates demanded freedom for the “Zion 8,” Pastor Wang Yi, Jimmy Lai, and Gulshan Abbas, targeted in transnational repression. Continue Reading…

Pray With Us:

• Father, we plead for mercy for Pastor John Cao and his family. We ask for divine intervention for Dr. Bob Fu to place the petition/letter in President Trump’s hands today.
• Lord, you promised a blessing to those that face persecution in Matthew 5:10-11. We ask for that blessing and nearness for the Jinzhai County underground church.
• Father, we pray for the Beijing Jiaquan Church. We ask for breakthrough in the disclosure of the detainees’ whereabouts.
• Lord, we continue to celebrate Pastor Ezra Jin’s miraculous release. We thank you for his testimony. We ask his account would bring about great change in China!
• Father, we ask for a special blessing over the Trump-Xi meetings today. We ask human rights would be the forefront of discussion. 

Bring Pastor John Cao Home! We need 100,000 signatures by tonight asking President Trump to personally raise Pastor Cao’s case and help bring him home to his American family. Sign now → BringCaoHome.com

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Stand with the Persecuted Today

This week we cannot look away. In Anhui, officers banned hymns that name Jesus and told young believers to sing the Party’s praise instead. In Beijing, pastors from Jiaquan Church were taken. Yet even in the midst of these trials, the Gospel continues to advance in China, with the church experiencing over 100-fold growth since 1949. 

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