China orders Christians to pray for communist martyrs


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UCA News reporter Updated: September 06, 2021 08:43 AM GMT Christians pray at the Protestant Early Rain Covenant Church in Beijing, China. Chinese authorities have asked state-controlled Protestant churches to honor and pray for communist martyrs. (Photo: Radio Free Asia) Chinese authorities have asked Christians from state-approved Protestant churches to pray for communist soldiers who died in the war with imperial Japan. While Chinese Christians are banned from honoring their own martyrs and praying to them, a new directive from the authorities says it is mandatory to pray for soldiers of the Red Army who died during the resistance war...