I Doubt If Religious Freedoms In China Have Improved Very Much.....

Priests and clergy in China continue to be harassed and arrested for their activities promoting religious faith there. This testimony 5 years ago details some of the abuse. Their dedication to cause reminds me of another selfless preacher Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

It was 55 years ago Sunday, April 9, [60 years ago, now] that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was marched from his prison cell at the Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany and was hung. Bonhoeffer was a Protestant minister who opposed Hitler. He refused to keep silent about the discrimination and persecution of the Jews. He spoke out repeatedly and fearlessly until the Nazis executed him.

Many Protestant house church leaders, pastors, Catholic bishops, and priests in China are modern day Dietrich Bonhoeffers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer suffered in prison for two years -- from April 1943 to his death almost exactly two years later.

As Martin Luther King once said... "If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if you enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer." China's leadership has no conscience.