Hello folks. Lately, our world has seen an uptick in persecuted Christians. @LoricaLady and @totallylovedbygod have discussed how Christians in Asia and Africa have been harmed or hurt by others, or have been impacted negatively by society as a whole. Today, we will be analyzing 2 Timothy 3:12...
Man, the weather seems to be getting worse. China is experiencing floods that may impact a large swathe of the Guangdong Province. I will pray for these folks in China: Millions at risk of floods in China’s Guangdong province after heavy rain
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This thread is a reply to certain posts concerning Chinese Christianity in my thread on potentially heterodox parishes and local churches, as this formed the basis of an interesting discussion with @bbbbbbb @MarkRohfrietsch and @FireDragon76 which was off-topic to the previous thread:
What I...
The revelation is another blow to President Biden’s insistence that he had no knowledge or discussion of his only surviving son’s foreign business interests.
“Bank records don’t lie but President Joe Biden does. In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China,”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65219219
Can China successfully invade Taiwan?
They have been building up their military for some years with this aim in mind. They have a lot of hardware deployed around Taiwan. They have carrier-sinking missiles. But do they have enough to pull off an...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-allege-biden-directly-involved-business-dealings-son-hunter
I am curious how long it will take before House Republicans bring up articles of impeachment. I give it less than a year.
From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard...
China promotes coal in setback for efforts to cut emissions
The majority of electricity in China is produced by coal, and now they plan to boost coal production. The Biden administration is clamping down on fossil fuel production in the United States, which is some of the cleanest produced...
The Chinese Communist Party has industrialized the killing of prisoners of conscience for its organs, and this should be stopped, a group of lawmakers from the U.S. and other countries said on International Human Rights Day.
“These are living people,” U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) Said in a...
I saw this on ChurchMilitant.com and wanted to see if anyone has read this article:
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Alarm is growing over a major Vatican conference in October as news emerges about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) involvement in the event and in Vatican affairs at...
The Pandemic may have started in China but due to a very effective shut down the country has not been majorly impacted by it. Indeed the economy is booming. China has more and more money to spend on military hardware and space expeditions. Its reputation is soaring and if it has not already...
Some recent concerns raised --
"Now, an investigation into Securities and Exchange Commission filings has revealed that the firm that owns Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from a Swiss bank with close links to the Chinese government less than a month before the election, reports...
Could some of the Magi who came looking for Christ at His birth; have been from China?
(I'll get to this question in a minute - first though):
I came across a blog post the other day that contained a very interesting piece of historical information. (Which I will link the blog post at the end...
Simple Chinese word sparks racial sensitivity debate
So this professor used a Chinese word that is a homophone of a racial slur, and gets suspended for it. The context was in a discussion on language, so this has nothing in any way, shape, or form, to do with the slur. Essentially, we are...
The Great Chinese famine from 1959 to 1961 in China killed 15 to 55 million people.
In those years, many intellectuals were sent to a re-education labor camp in Jiabiangou, Gansu province. People eat everything they can and can't eat, and finally some people can't even go outside to defecate...
As we spiral out of control in 2020, there is a lot of factors that brought us here. On the nation stage and the world stage this is one of them.
Do you think this article has reveleance?
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2019/10/23/chinas_own_great_delusion_114805.html
Before I ask The Big Question, that anyone from the Abrahamic faiths can answer, I will be as transparent about myself and my efforts as possible. Born and raised in the USA to a military family that was half Baptist and half Catholic I was always hearing from one side the other was going to...
As a conservative and Trump supporter it looks to me that liberals in general and on the board seem to largely give China a pass when it comes to the virus. I see much more preoccupation with complaints on how Trump has handled it etc.
Is that a correct perception?
If this is true in...