Word: christian
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...evangelical Christian who is concerned about the Reagan gospel that equates being a good Christian with espousing the President's political beliefs. Such stuff is the making of inquisitions. This Administration's record with regard to the disadvantaged and its blasé attitude toward the nuclear threat are not consistent with New Testament Christianity...
...John's, the Pope issued a firm appeal for publicly funded religious education. (In Canada, that is a less inflammatory issue than in the U.S., since many provinces already fund some, if not all, Roman Catholic schools.) In Toronto, John Paul told a gathering of non-Catholic Christian church leaders that "the needs of the poor must take priority over the desires of the rich" and that ecumenical cooperation is needed to confront the moral implications of technological development...
China's government clamps down on a Christian revival...
...hundreds of arrests, occasional incidents of torture and other forms of harassment since mid-1983 constitute the first sweeping crackdown against Christian activity since the Communist regime instituted a measure of toleration in 1979. The repression is aimed especially at a zealous Protestant revival occurring among the unsanctioned house churches, which are in increasing conflict with the government-approved Protestant organizations. Only last week, for the first time, a government newspaper confirmed the existence of a Protestant revival "fever...
Asked about the arrests of underground Christians, Ding contends it is "false" that noncooperation (with the T.S.P.M.) is treated as a crime. Despite that assertion, an arrest warrant posted last year in Henan province lists just that charge against a house-church Christian. The warrant also provides a rare glimpse into the work of a single house-church evangelist. The warrant says the evangelist "deceived" 400 people into converting to Christianity, 100 of them in a single evening, and on another occasion "disturbed the social order" with a rally at a sports field. Such documents show that evangelism...