Stories tagged with: open doors 2020 world watch list

• 'Walking worship' new lifeline for Chinese Christians

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, January 16, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- "Walking worship" is what the pastor calls it. After the Chinese government destroyed his underground church in Beijing, the congregation resorted to a new thing.

  "Without any place to worship, because any place we gather is not safe," Xiang En told Baptist Press Wednesday (Jan. 15), "we used a kind of unique form of worship in the church history. We call it 'walking worship,' WW." The church multimedia team records a weekly audio file of an entire service, from the call to worship to the benediction, and safely distributes it to congregation members. Read More

• Open Doors: Technology advancing Christian persecution

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, January 15, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The use of technology is advancing and strengthening Christian persecution, Open Doors CEO David Curry said Wednesday (Jan. 15) in releasing the ministry's 2020 World Watch List of the 50 countries where such persecution is most severe.

  "Christian faith is under attack and the methods of that persecution are becoming more sophisticated, and thus pose a greater threat," he said, "because they have the ability to oppress on a massive scale now, and I think it's a blueprint for others." Read More