Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
The following article was sent to us by a brother in China. For security reasons, we are not going to use his name.
Up until even just a decade ago, Christians in China really had to count the cost as they faced arrests, beatings, long imprisonments and even death. Within the past few years, however, the Communist Party has begun to show more toleration towards Christianity, especially as its leaders have come to realize that Christianity is not going away.