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HELPING PRISONERS OF FAITH
LOOKING
THE TIGER ‘ION THE EYE
told Release International in a recent interview. ‘They forced the local school to bar my children so they could not get an education and we were forced to move home several times under pressure from the authorities.’
Tom Hardie meets courageous Christians who have challenged the Chinese state yet known God’s amazing provision in the midst of their suffering
Thankfully Chen made contact with our partners, ChinaAid, who were able to advise him about leaving the country before it was too late.
gun to his head.’
ne minute my little son was escape China but were picked up near playing with a mobile phone, the border. The party were taken
the next a police officer had back – each in a separate vehicle – to
knocked it out of his hand and put a Beijing where Chen was a renowned
Chen, who represented leading human rights lawyers Xie Yang and Jiang Tianyong, had come to faith in Christ a few years earlier. This newfound belief informed and inspired his work and he sees God’s hand in all he went through.
The memory of that terrifying day security officials surrounded him and his family is seared in the memory
of Chinese Christian lawyer Chen Jiangang.
human rights lawyer now discredited by the Chinese Communist Party. Chen had had the audacity to represent those despised by the state and was warned that if he carried on with his work he would be ‘forcibly disappeared’.
Chen, his wife and two young sons ‘It wasn’t so much that that worried and another couple had tried to me but the threats to my family,’ he
‘The scripture that helped me the most during those difficult days was Psalm 23,’ he said.
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