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ANN/THE STAR – YLCO (Yeoh Lim Chew and Oh) Clan Museum director Ignatius Chew shared to me a story about the kidnapping of his uncle by the Japanese during WWII. “Give me all your money! Give me everything! Hurry Up! Otherwise, your son will die!” threatened the Japanese captain. The family was terrified as the […]
During a recent visit to the YLCO (Yeoh Lim Chew and Oh) Clan Museum in Ipoh, the writer learnt from its director Ignatius Chew about the kidnappings of his uncle and grandfather by the Japanese during WWII.
What is Charismatic, or Pentecostal, Christianity? If you want an answer to this and thousands of other related questions you could do no better than consult Diarmaid MacCulloch’s amazingly comprehensive and eye-opening book A History of Christianity (2009). There we read that “charisma” means a gift of grace, something associated with what MacCulloch calls the Trinity’s “Cinderella,” the Holy Spirit, and manifested in the direct expression of religious emotion by its adherents (calling out, rolling on the floor and spontaneous singing).
“The rise of Pentecostalism and its Charismatic offshoots,” he writes, “was one of the greatest surprises of twentieth century
In communist China, practicing a certain faith, printing, or even reading religious books could result in prison terms and abuse. Spiritual believers in China – be it Christians, Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, or Falun Gong practitioners – are faced not only with brutal suppression or forced-labor terms but also have their religious books burned or trashed at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), epoch times reports.
Updates on Christian persecution appear in the Journal from China,
Bitter Winter. In an article in Bitter Winter, tItled “More accounts from across China on crackdowns against Protestant places of worship,”
Lu Xiaojing reports:
Shandong Province: On July 2, 2020 the Lanling county government in the prefecture-level city of Linyi demolished a Three-Self Church venue in one of the villages under its jurisdiction because it was “too close to a village committee office.”