The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.Christmas Editorial: Reflections on Christmas in China and Dr. Fan Yafeng
Released by ChinaAid, December, 2010 ...
"MIDLAND TEXAS – As the Christmas season draws to a close in America, we at ChinaAid urge our freedom-loving friends and supporters to remember Dr. Fan, his wife Wu Lingling and their three-year-old little boy, prisoners in their own home in Beijing as they too celebrated Christmas. Though they celebrated the same birth of the same Savior as Christians in America, their holiday was an altogether different one. And although China has adopted many outward trappings of American affluence and lifestyle, to the extent that some visitors are fooled into thinking that China is becoming like America, the reality is that Chinese singers who have no idea whose birth they are singing about in 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' or 'O Holy Night' can present touching renditions of these well-loved carols in any four- or five-star hotel in Beijing or Shanghai, but Christians who do know the baby Jesus cannot gather for a Christmas service except at a government church without risk of being raided, cannot have more than a handful of people to their home to celebrate Christmas or it becomes an illegal gathering, and cannot follow Jesus’ example to champion the poor, the weak, and the oppressed without paying a heavy price."
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