Zhang, Jun: China house church threaten Communist Party rule
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Date: 11/1/2013 2:25:18 PM
Sender: Zhang, Jun
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Zhang, Jun: China house church threaten Communist Party rule
张军（Zhang, Jun)
Chinese urban households churches emerging in recent years, has constituted a huge political challenge for the Communist Party.
Although the new CPC leadership steering wool leftist, activist lawyer ruthless repression of dissidents, sometimes combative immobility. But for urban households remain reluctant to yield independent church, it seems no way to completely control.
Urban house churches in China has become the largest number of participants in the religious development much faster than the official Church officially registered.
According to estimates, the Chinese government registered churches around nearly over twenty million followers, while not registered house church members about more than fifty million.
For home church authorities both hard and soft, while limiting intimidate them, on the other hand to lure them to join the official church, but the family and the church has been reluctant to establish official relations.
Modern Western religion and democracy are closely related, religious freedom, equality, fraternity are the core idea. In the wave of democratization after World War II, many countries are involved in the initiation church social movements, using its influence to promote political reforms, such as the Philippines, Poland, Korea and so on.
The rapid growth of house churches in China, and certainly will affect the future of China＇s democratic development, this trend is very scared of the Chinese Communist Party, but it is also China＇s hope.
Zhang, Jun
November 1, 2013
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