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Charlemagne and Alcuin
How Charlemagne and a Christian scholar expanded the Church in the Middle Ages.
How Charlemagne and a Christian scholar expanded the Church in the Middle Ages.
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Pray for China
It seems as if the crackdown on Christian churches and church leaders has been ever increasing in China.
It seems as if the crackdown on Christian churches and church leaders has been ever increasing in China. The Chinese Communist Party continues to find new ways to dissolve church gatherings. The article below describes the situation that a long established Christian church has found themselves in with the CCP.
“Chinese authorities have escalated their long-standing campaign against unregistered Christian groups, with prominent house churches once again finding themselves in the crosshairs of state security forces.
According to The Guardian, the latest development involves the detention of key leaders from the Early Rain Covenant Church, one of China’s most well-known and resilient unofficial Protestant congregations. This move appears to mark a deliberate effort to dismantle remaining organized networks of independent believers who refuse to align with government-sanctioned religious structures.
The Early Rain Covenant Church, originally founded in 2008 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, has a history marked by both growth and severe repression. Its founder, Pastor Wang Yi—a former legal scholar and outspoken human rights advocate—was arrested in late 2018 alongside over 100 members during a major nationwide sweep targeting unregistered churches.
Wang was later sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power, a conviction widely viewed by international observers as politically motivated. Following the 2018 crackdown, the church’s physical premises were shuttered, forcing the community to shift toward online sermons and small, private gatherings to sustain their worship.
Despite these challenges, the congregation persisted under new leadership. However, the environment grew increasingly hostile in recent years. New regulations introduced in September 2025 explicitly banned unlicensed religious groups from conducting online sermons, effectively closing one of the few remaining avenues for broader outreach.
Pastors across unregistered networks reportedly received explicit warnings from police that authorities would show no tolerance for such activities in 2026. Many members, anticipating heightened scrutiny, adopted even more clandestine approaches to their faith practices, with some ceasing in-person gatherings altogether due to repeated interrogations and intimidation.
The turning point came in early January 2026. On Tuesday, January 6, police raided the home of Li Yingqiang—the church’s current leader—in Deyang, a smaller city in Sichuan province.
Li was taken into custody along with his wife, Zhang Xinyue, pastor Dai Zhichao, and lay member Ye Fenghua. Additional members were detained during the operation; at least four were later released, while others remain out of contact.
Under President Xi Jinping, religious freedom has narrowed significantly, even though the Chinese constitution nominally guarantees it. Unofficial groups are often portrayed as threats to national stability and party control.
Human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch, describe the actions as a “blatant attack” on house churches, driven by Beijing’s desire to tighten ideological conformity.
Scholars note that while large, prominent congregations can be fragmented through leadership arrests, smaller decentralized groups may prove more difficult to eradicate entirely—and could even facilitate continued growth among China’s Christian population, estimated officially at around 3% but likely higher in reality.” Source: Endtimeheadlines.org
This article highlights the continuing ramp up of persecution against Christians and the Christian church. Please consider praying for the individuals mentioned in this article and all of the Christians currently being held in CCP interment camps. In the last paragraph we learn that the efforts of the CCP to fragment the church has only caused it to grow. Pray that indeed the church in China would grow in response to every restriction and charge placed upon it.
Ministry Update: WOW
Did you know that Bible Discovery tithes? Working For Orphans and Widows is a ministry touching a world and people that God loves. Friend to Bible Discovery, Pastor Jim Cantelon, leads the charge in helping to rescue those at critical risk.
The words of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, haunt us: “Not called!’ did you say?
‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.”
― William Booth
Wow answers that call.
WOW specializes exclusively on the primary calling to dying orphans and widows. This ministry to the dying is called “Home Based Care” (HBC). We make thousands of HBC visits every year. These are made by our “army” of local church volunteers (mainly widows themselves) who lovingly care for the dying with
Pray for Uzbekistan
“With her baby in her arms, Samiya (all names have been changed for security) welcomed people into her home for that day’s Bible study. Finally, when the last arrived, they sat together to study the Word of God. ‘These new believers are very happy to learn and understand the depth and richness of the Bible….
Nehemiah 8:10 NIV …for the joy of the Lord is your strength. That verse rings true in the following article by Christian Aid. Missionaries to Uzbekistan would see the result of their seeds of prayer planted years earlier, spring up in the hearts of people in a remote village. This village found the joy of the Lord …contagious!
“With her baby in her arms, Samiya (all names have been changed for security) welcomed people into her home for that day’s Bible study. Finally, when the last arrived, they sat together to study the Word of God. ‘These new believers are very happy to learn and understand the depth and richness of the Bible,’ a local ministry leader said. ‘God continues to make Himself visible and move around this nation in this area.’
Just one year prior, this village, located in one of the most remote, unreached parts of Uzbekistan, was as spiritually dry as its desert landscape. It wasn’t until a group of local missionaries began to pray for the people there that things started to change.
It All Started With Prayer
Several years ago, a group of local missionaries began to pray specifically for the remote part of Uzbekistan that Samiya calls home. In a country in which nearly 90 percent of the population is Muslim, their hope that the gospel would change lives might have seemed like an impossible dream. But these faithful Christ-followers knew that prayer moves mountains, and, together, they asked the Lord to come down.
They were not disappointed.
The Pebble That Caused the Landslide
The time came for the missionaries to visit the region where Samiya lived and begin to build relationships with the people there. One of those missionaries, Umar, befriended a local man named Imron. “He [Imron] was often dull and unfriendly,” the ministry leader said. “However, when God touched his heart, this man was visibly transformed.”
Together, the two men began to share the gospel. One of those people who listened to their evangelism was none other than Imron’s wife, Samiya. The same Samiya who, just one year later, would be instrumental in ongoing evangelism in their community.
When Samiya first heard of Jesus through her husband, she wasn’t interested in learning more. “She was reluctant to listen, thinking this was some kind of joke,’ the ministry leader said. ‘However, day after day, she observed her husband becoming more open and full of joy. Through this transformation of her husband, Samiya opened her heart to Jesus.’
Once Samiya gave her life to the Lord, she couldn’t help but share His story. “Just like the woman at the well, she was enlightened and transformed deep inside after her encounter with Jesus,’ the ministry leader said. ‘She started to share her heart so eagerly and so actively with everyone in her village and household, that soon they were gathering about nine people in their home.’
Word of Samiya’s Faith Spread
A group of women from a church near Uzbekistan’s capital heard of Samiya, and they decided to journey to her village to encourage her and the small group of believers that had begun to meet in her home. But when they arrived, they quickly realized that it was Samiya who would encourage them, not the other way around.
As the women visited with Samiya, her own joy spilled onto them, and they found that they were buoyed by her obvious love for Jesus. ‘Often, we think that new believers need to have a lot of support from ‘experienced’ Christians,’ the ministry leader said. ‘This is of course true to some extent; however, in the areas like this, where there are not many Christians, God is present in abundance and He Himself is nurturing faith in people’s hearts.’
Today, there are at least 30 believers in Samiya’s village and even more people curious about the gospel. The ministry leader reports that they expect to baptize a large group within the next few months”. Source: Christian Aid
Although the results of prayer might not be experienced immediately, we can see, in the example of this small village, that a crop is well on its way. Those seeds of prayer were watered by joy. Joy is contagious. Especially the Joy of the Lord. One missionary’s joyful sharing of the gospel was nurtured by the fertile soil cultivated by the prayers of their predecessors.
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
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