Read Key Papers by Pastor Wang Yi and Persecuted Chinese Church Leaders in Several Languages
Editor’s note: Over 100 members of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, were arrested beginning Sunday, December 9. Among those taken away were Pastor Wang Yi, senior pastor of Early Rain, and his wife, Jiang Rong. Pastor Wang Yi and his elder Timothy Li Yingquiang are still in custody, along with others.
Wang Yi is one of China's most prominent protestant pastors, a respected intellectual, a legal scholar, a renowned human rights advocate, and a church movement leader. His Early Rain Covenant Church is one of the best known unregistered "house" churches in China.
Under President Xi Jinping, China's increasing crackdown on religious freedom is escalating especially since a new set of regulations to govern religious affairs came into effect in February 2018 to increase punishments for "unofficial churches" like Early Rain. This story is being reported in the New York Times,Wall Street Journal,Reuters, AP News, World Magazine.
All of the documents below are primary source documents written in Chinese by the persecuted church leaders at Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China as well as important documents signed by groups of Chinese church leaders.
Special thanks to the China Partnership and Brent Pinkall for translating these Chinese papers into English,
Francis Foucachon with Heritage Huguenot for the French translations, and to our ministry partner Nathaniel Adawonu, with New Harvest Mission International for providing these French translations to more than 100 indigenous French-speaking pastors and church planters in their network in Togo West Africa and calling them to pray for their persecuted brothers and sisters in China.
Thanks also to our ministry partners Bret Rayl and Kuni Hotta from Christ Bible Institute and Seminary in Japan for Japanese translations
and IMPACT (Acts 29 in Italy), Justin Valiquette with Acts 29 Italy, Nuova Vita (New Life) Salerno for the Italian translation.
Special thanks also to our ministry partners in Korea, who asked to be anonymous, for their translation work.
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Key Papers by Persecuted Chinese Church Leaders
1. Chinese Churches Appeal for Prayer and Help for Persecuted Early Rain Church（华西区会致基督众教会的代祷信）
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the Japanese translation: Click Here
2. Urgent Prayer Updates Directly From Persecuted Early Rain Church in China（秋雨圣约教会紧急代祷信息）
To read the original Chinese updates（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation of updates: Click Here
To read the original Chinese document（中文）: Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the French translation: Click Here
To read the Japanese translation: Click Here
To read the Italian translation: Click Here
To read the Korean translation: Click Here
* More translations coming soon, we hope.
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
To read the original Chinese document（中文): Click Here
To read the English translation: Click Here
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