tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post4572203878175432196..comments2024-03-29T09:20:16.581-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Persecution in China. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-960695196945631392016-02-11T00:55:17.825-06:002016-02-11T00:55:17.825-06:00If I have seen further than others, it is by stand...If I have seen <a href="http://www.ufgop.org/pdf/further" rel="nofollow">further</a> than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. See the link below for more info. <br /><br /><br />#further<br />www.ufgop.orgAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07720547920308398294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-1761582980135519402016-02-09T09:11:29.526-06:002016-02-09T09:11:29.526-06:00"In contrast to this, China does officially a...<i>"In contrast to this, China does officially allow some churches, however, even these have faced increasing governmental scrutiny. Clearly the only churches the government can tolerate are those it can control. So the aim of the government has been to make churches more Chinese and more friendly to the goals and purposes of communism and the current leaders."</i><br /><br />The ChiComs allow churches such as The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod (LCHKS, in Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with the LCMS) because these churches are part of the unionistic China Christian Council (CCC), which along with the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, form the umbrella organization for all Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China. Similarly, other LCMS partner churches (and <i>de facto</i> partner churches) belong to the unionistic, if not apostate, Lutheran World Federation.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com