Episode 17: Alarming News from China: Disappearing Mosques, Organ Harvesting, Fleeing Christians

Headlines coming out of China in just the past couple weeks have been alarming. There are reports of disappearing mosques and Muslims, new and crowded “thought transformation camps,” evidence of widespread harvesting of prisoners’ organs for the black market, tenuous political freedoms in Hong Kong, and a drastic increase in the persecution of Christians across the country. What’s going on? How might we Christians in the west respond?

The following websites and articles contributed to the content in this episode:

Faith in ruins: China's vanishing beards and mosques - BBC (video)

Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps - BBC (video)

Harvesting human organs in China - The World and Everything in It

‘Sing hallelujah to the Lord’: Christians are a highly visible presence in Hong Kong protests - World Magazine

Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre - The World and Everything in It

30 Years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre: One of the Darkest Days of the 20th Century and its Meaning - Albert Mohler, The Briefing

Too dangerous to forget": Three decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the citizens of Hong Kong are confronting their own Communist incursion - World Magazine

China: World Watch List - Open Doors USA

Expelled from China: Missionaries say the Communist country is kicking them out, one by one - World Magazine

Thousands of Chinese students become Christians in US universities - Evangelical Focus