In an effort to make us more aware of the desperate needs of a lost and dying world, Chi Alpha presents this prayer focus. Millions of people die every year having never heard the name of Jesus and thousands of Christians are imprisoned, tortured, and killed for their faith. Mao s Great Leap Forward in the late 50s and the Cultural Revolution in the 60s and 70s left millions of his countrymen dead or victimized. Today, with its policies of forced abortion and sterilization, China s human rights record is one of the worst in the world.
Authorities reportedly sell the organs of executed prisoners to meet the demand for transplants.
Its system of re-education through labor detains hundreds of thousands each year in work camps without even a court hearing. China s strike-hard policy, presented as a crackdown on criminals, is hardest on Christians, putting more believers in prison or under detention than in any other country. The confiscation of church property and Bibles continues - even Bibles officially printed by the government. China s house church movement, which comprises approximately 80 percent of China s Christians, endures heavy persecution, yet stands on its commitment to preach the gospel no matter the cost. In 1998, house church leaders for the first time publicly called on the Communist government to officially recognize house churches.