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Intercessors are urged to come alongside a pastor and president of Chinese House Church Alliance who recently issued an open letter to the international community revealing sufferings and persecutions he has endured from authorities. Mingxuan strongly appealed for the international community “to pray for China and for the success of (the) 2008 Olympics in China and for the real freedom of religion in China,” he wrote. “We pray to God that those brothers and sisters imprisoned for preaching Jesus Christ will be released soon and that God will make leaders in the Chinese government to treat the believers in a correct way and that God will make China a country full of love, justice, freedom and prosperity.”

Emergency Prayer Alert-China

President of Chinese House Church Alliance issues open letter to international community

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Intercessors are urged to come alongside a pastor and president of the Chinese House Church Alliance who recently issued an open letter to the international community, revealing sufferings and persecutions he has endured from authorities.

Since his conversion to Christianity in 1986 Pastor Zhang Mingxuan has been arrested, beaten and incarcerated 12 times, Assist News Service (ANS) reported. Most recently, Public Security Bureau (PSB) and state officials forced Mingxuan to close the orphanage he had been running with his two sons.

Mingxuann and the orphans have continued to look for places of residence, but have been refused several times by landlords who have been threatened by officials not to lease to the pastor. Currently, Zhang has been separated from his two sons, who were also forced to move by PSB officials, ANS reported.

The persecution prompted Mingxuan to issue an open letter, which details the many hardships and injustices he has had to endure throughout the years, according to China Aid Association. The pastor also cited numerous accounts of Chinese Christians imprisoned for preaching Jesus Christ, ANS reported.

In his letter, Mingxuan said he had appealed to President Hu Jintao to rectify the wrongs being done by corrupt government officials. However, Mingxuan has received no response.

Mingxuan strongly appealed for the international community “to pray for China and for the success of (the) 2008 Olympics in China and for the real freedom of religion in China,” he wrote. “We pray to God that those brothers and sisters imprisoned for preaching Jesus Christ will be released soon and that God will make leaders in the Chinese government to treat the believers in a correct way and that God will make China a country full of love, justice, freedom and prosperity.”

China is ranked No. 10 in the 2008 Open Doors “World Watch List” of nations that persecute Christians the worst.

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Sourced: Assist News Service, China Aid Association, Open Doors, Christian Solidarity Worldwide

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