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	China Christian Council - Amity Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lutheran Church of China was born in 1920.
		Christians in China were not allowed to communicate with the West, and no one outside China knew what was happening.
		The China Christian Council promotes theological education and the publication of the Bible, hymn books and other Christian literature, the exchange of information among local churches, and the development of friendly relations with churches overseas.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/china/church.html (560 words)

	SBC WORKS WITH LIBERAL CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL
		In November the CCC publicly alleged that the Southern Baptist Convention was planning to send missionaries into China clandestinely, without putting them under the "authority" of the CCC.
		For the China Christian Council to pretend to have the authority to rule over all evangelistic, missionary work in China is blasphemous usurpation of Christ’s position as Head of the churches and Lord of the Harvest.
		All the while, the leaders of the CCC continue to lie to the world, claiming there is no persecution, that there is religious liberty in China.
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/sbcworks.htm (2182 words)

	DNS -- Chinese Church
		The Protestant church in China is a lesson in Christian unity, according to the Rev. Robert K. Welsh, president of the Disciples Council on Christian Unity.
		The China Christian Council is a partner church to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ and the delegation was hosted by Global Ministries, the overseas ministry partnership of the two denominations.
		After the formation of the China Christian Council, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was the first denomination to invite its representatives to visit the United States.
	www.disciples.org /dns/releases2001/2001a37.htm (824 words)

	GBGM Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The mission of China's 16 million Protestant Christians is "to show God's love and to benefit all people" in a society that once saw their faith estranged from the national identity, a church leader from the world's most populous nation said on Tuesday.
		The Rev. Cao Shengjie, general secretary of the China Christian Council, participated at one of the programmes during the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), in Athens, Greece.
		The council was formed in 1980, after the re-opening of China's churches in 1979.
	gbgm-umc.org /global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=3202 (458 words)

	Peace and Justice Ministries
		The China Christian Council expressed its appreciation for the final text of the Tibet resolution passed at General Convention, 1997, calling on China to meet with the Dalai Lama and to respect the religious tradition of the Tibetan people.
		While the CCC has a different view of Tibet than proponents of the resolution, officials noted that the text was gracious in tone and language.
		The CCC and the delegation were in agreement that President Clinton's visit to China, which coincided with the delegation's visit, was remarkable for the candor and openness expressed between the two leaders.
	www.er-d.org /1866_9849_ENG_HTM.htm (701 words)

	China Christian Council delegation visits CBF to promote Bible exhibition
		ATLANTA – A delegation from the China Christian Council (CCC) met with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship staff and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Atlanta Feb. 25.
		But the fact that the leadership of the China Christian Council visited with a number of representatives of Christian churches in the U.S. is evidence of their desire for our prayers and partnership.
		CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice.
	www.thefellowship.info /News/050304China.icm (463 words)

	ANGLICAN PEACE and JUSTICE NETWORK
		The China Christian Council expressed its appreciation for the final text of the Tibet resolution passed at General Convention, 1997, calling on China to meet with the Dalai Lama and to respect the religious tradition of the Tibetan people.
		While the CCC has a different view of Tibet than proponents of the resolution, officials noted that the text was gracious in tone and language.
		The CCC and the delegation were in agreement that President Clinton's visit to China, which coincided with the delegation's visit, was remarkable for the candor and openness expressed between the two leaders.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /apjn/visittochina.cfm (729 words)

	From the China Christian Council
		On the occasion of the holding of the general council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the China Christian Council sends you this message of congratulation and celebration on behalf of all the Protestant Christians in China.
		We thank God for the witness of the Christians and churches of the Reformed tradition to the lordship of Jesus Christ and to the glory of God, and for the work of the World Alliance in supporting and stengthening this witness throughout the world.
		We are thankful that the church of Jesus Christ which is in China has been able to continue with its worship and its work of discipling and to use the great opportunities for witnessing to him.
	www.warc.ch /where/22gc/greet/02.html (209 words)

	June 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The work of the TSPM and China Christian Council fulfills the mandate given them by the Communist Party to organize and safeguard “normal religious activities.” This mandate appeared in 1982 as part of a policy statement on religion known as Communist Party Document 19.
		While the China Christian Council operates twelve seminaries for the training of church leaders, the ultimate goal of these seminaries, according to “Document 19,” is to equip a new corps of pastors to guarantee that the Church will in the future operate under the leadership of the Party.
		The challenge facing believers outside China who are concerned for their Chinese brothers and sisters is to search out the truth of what God is doing among His people, whether within the walls of the open churches or among rural believers in secret home meetings.
	www.missionfrontiers.org /1988/06/j884.htm (2868 words)

	PCUSA, government-sanctioned China council propose agreement - 3/28/2000
		There are an estimated 10 million members of churches that are members of the China Christian Council and 80 million whose churches are not registered with the government.
		China is ranked second behind Myanmar (formerly Burma) among monitored nations on the International Christian Concern list for intensity of persecution.
		Nearly 80 percent of China's Christians belong to unregistered churches due to the government's intrusive policies and interference.
	www.layman.org /layman/news/news-from-pcusa/pcusa-china.htm (603 words)

	China's Christian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The truly great era of Western influence in China began in the mid-nineteenth century, and though the propagation of the faith was hardly the dominant motive of these newly influential Westerners, the role of Christianity in Chinese affairs grew in proportion to the Western presence.
		Once a localized phenomenon, Christianity could thus be carried deep into the interior of the Empire, and the Chinese government was obligated to protect that advance---however much it resented the obligations that the West had forced upon it.
		Insofar as the involvement of American Christians in the problems of China is concerned, the nineteenth-century outlook, so powerful in shaping attitudes in the first half of the twentieth century, seems not to have much purchase on the eve of the twenty-first.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9708/articles/horner.html (4334 words)

	East Asia and the Pacific: Bible exhibition draws Hong Kong crowds
		Christians in China study the Bible carefully and try to understand the word of God regarding Himself and the human life so as to actively respond to the call of proclaiming in this new century of the good news that God is love.
		Christians with such faith are one of the most beautiful people's groups in the country we love.
		This task is for the churches in China in a new context to try to find new methods to disclose the new message that the Bible speaks to us in our own time, and to sow the seeds of God's love in a broader field that exceeds the boundaries of the churches.
	www.globalministries.org /eap/ea090204.htm (2920 words)

	Western Presbyterian Church - Resources
		Protestant Churches in China, their history and status in the 1990s, is the subject of two papers delivered by Jean Woo, http://www.bu.edu/sth/BTI/progs/imep/costas96/wooj.htm, and Franklin J. Woo, http://www.bu.edu/sth/BTI/progs/imep/costas96/woof.htm, at a March 15-16, 1996, conference hosted at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and sponsored by the Boston Theological Institute, 1996 Orlando Costas Consultation on Global Mission.
		World Council of Churches at www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/mch-e.html and Action by Churches Together at www.act-intl.org/ipartner.html reveal that the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana in Ho is a member of both (it is a member of ACT through the Christian Council of Ghana).
		Christianity and African Traditional Religion are discussed at two sites: (1) www.isizah.net/afrel/index.html, privately maintained, with a bibliography, by Chidi Denis Isizoh, and (2) http://www.genesis.acu.edu/chowning/africa/atrgos.htm, provided by the Africa Missions Resource Center of the Church of Christ.
	www.westernpresbyterian.org /resources/Overseas.htm (1306 words)

	About China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Our figures include both baptized Christians and what in China are called "seekers", people who have been attending church regularly for some time and who aspire to be baptized as soon as there is an opportunity.
		The CCC counts only about 8,000 churches in China, but tens of thousands of meeting points which may be private homes or simple halls where believers gather for worship.
		To answer the question now: In our estimates we include all Christians in China, whether they worship in churches or homes, whether their congregations are part of a Christian Council or not.
	www.chinapartner.org /about_china.html (1751 words)

	Delegates from the China Christian Council Visits Members of the NCC \| Christianpost.com
		Chairperson of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, Ji Jianhong, agreed with Cao, emphasizing a need for international friendships among churches to extend that growth of legal recognition in China.
		Then, after a millennia, the protestant Christian community grew in China as a result of the missionary efforts from the 18th to 20th centuries.
		The nine member delegation of the China Christian Council met with representatives from the NCC and CWS, October, 14.
	www.christianpost.com /article/20031016/2087.htm (957 words)

	Graeme Chapman's The Church in China
		Joselyn Chey, Executive Director of the Australian China Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs, raised the matter with him in 1979, intimating that the Chinese would be open to a relationship with the Australian Council of Churches.
		While the Japanese conquest of China, the Communist victory in 1949 and the Korean War effectively severed relationships with churches in the West, it was not until the Cultural Revolution that the Chinese churches shook themselves free of denominationalism.
		Furthermore, while most Christians remained on the sidelines at the time of liberation, there were a number who were in the vanguard of the Revolution that liberated the country from the landlords, from the West and from Japanese occupation.
	www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/gchapman/CHINALEC.HTM (9773 words)

	United Church News: China welcomes first missionaries in 50 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More than 50 years after the last Western Christian missionaries were expelled from Communist China, two missionaries from the Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) are invited to teach at Nanking Union Theological Seminary.
		This announcement was made June 25 at the UCC's national offices in Cleveland by a five-member delegation from China, led by the Rev. Wenzao Han, Chairman of the China Christian Council, representing China's 15 million Protestant Christians.
		According to Han, the church in China is one of the fastest growing churches in the world.
	www.ucc.org /ucnews/aug01/china.htm (596 words)

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		Christian literature is essential not only for nurturing but also key to the understanding of our faith.
		On the provincial level, a number of Christian councils have their own periodicals, such as Tian You (Heavenly Friend) by the Hebei Christian Council, and Collection of Sermons, by the Zhejiang Christian Council.
		Chinese Christians are so eager for Christian literature that they tend to "see anything green as grass." All kinds of reading material have found their way into China.
	www.heritagemadison.org /publicat.htm (1613 words)

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		They are usually elder-led, often affiliate with a CCC church and are located usually in cities, suburbs or towns rather than villages.
		Opponents view it as an attempt to harmonize Christianity with Communism and to impose liberal theology on fundamentalist and evangelical churches.
		Christian Council President Cao Shengjie criticized groups that come to Chinese Christians with the message: “We want to help you but you must do things the way we want.
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=3362 (776 words)

	Ned Graham: God's Ambassador to China - Today's Christian
		The China Christian Council, an official government agency, works primarily with the Protestant churches of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), a government-sanctioned organization started by Chinese clergy in the early 1950s, after foreign missionaries were forced to leave the country.
		There are officials in China who go beyond the scope of their own laws and punish Christian believers—out of ignorance, ideological extremism, or cruelty—but they are exceptions, not the rule, Ned says.
		And, in the cases when house church evangelicals in China are persecuted, the cause is often bureaucratic corruption, not a systematic policy of discrimination.
	www.christianitytoday.com /tc/8r4/8r4022.html (2961 words)

	The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan's Response to the China Christian Council's Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On 2 September 1994, the China Christian Council (CCC) issued a statement which was sent out to ecumenical churches and also published the same in the Amity Newsletter (ANS).
		Among other things, the statement mistakenly declares that Taiwan is part of China and that advocacy of "Taiwan is Taiwan, China is China" and "Taiwan should enter the United Nations," is a betrayal of the overwhelming majority of Taiwan's people.
		The PCT is happy to march together hand in hand with the CCC in the mission of the Church, so that the justice, peace, and joy of the Kingdom of God will come on earth.
	www.taiwandocuments.org /pct09.htm (547 words)

	ACAA - Christian Art in China
		Unfortunately, this bridge from Christian religion to Chinese culture was torn down during the “Dispute on Rites” between the Vatican and the Jesuit Order, which ended with the prohibition of the Jesuits in 1773.
		Following the communist revolution and the founding of the People's Republic of China the Christian painting class at Furen University had to close, and by now all of its former members are dead except for Magdalena Liu, who is living in Canada today.
		Here calligraphy comes to the Christian painter's rescue, since it allows him to express that his depiction of a lotus flower is not inspired by some famous Tang lyrics, but by his reading of the Bible.
	www.asianchristianart.org /news/article1.html (1727 words)

	China: The Next Christian Superpower?
		Aikman: This is a utilitarian observation, that Christians in China are very good citizens and he wished more Chinese were as honest and as patriotic and as tax-paying and hard-working as Christians were.
		The Chinese Christians believe that they have a national destiny to take the Gospel back to Jerusalem, and they don't mean in order to evangelize the Israelis, they mean to evangelize all of the countries along the way.
		And I have never found any Christian community, outside of China, so convinced that the adoption of the Christian faith will be a blessing to their country.
	www.cbn.com /CBNNews/CWN/050704chinachurch.asp (615 words)

	Making Theology Compatible With Socialism
		At the conference, CCC general secretary Rev. Su Deci presented a lengthy analysis of why Chinese theological thought was backward, reminding delegates that conservative, fundamentalist Western missionaries had largely spread Christianity in China.
		Chen's admission that "changing the convictions of believers at the grassroots level is a matter of generations" was grudging tribute to the strength of Biblical faith and conviction among the vast majority of China's rapidly growing number of believers, who have no sympathy for the liberal theology emanating from Nanjing.
		However, far from rallying the majority of Christians behind Party policies, the Party is in danger of alienating the vast majority from the TSPM and pushing them into the arms of the unofficial house churches.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-china-socialism.html (1752 words)

	China ends partnership with SBC
		Apparently this is the two-track approach criticized by the China Christian Council.
		An IMB press release estimated at least 25,000 Southern Baptists visited China in 1994 and many of them "share(d) their faith as a natural part of their lifestyles." It is unclear what will happen to the eight IMB missionaries that relate to the CCC.
		Rankin's predecessor, Keith Parks, agreed the board's China policy is rooted in decisions made during his tenure as president, from 1979 to 1992.
	www.baptiststandard.com /1997/12_3/pages/china.html (679 words)

	Catholic World News : China bars Protestant leaders from ecumenical conference
		The goal of the conference was to improve ties between the Christian churches of Europe and their counterparts in China.
		The China Christian Council, a group uniting Protestant leaders in the country, was founded in 1980, when churches were re-opened after the period of repression during the Cultural Revolution.
		The Chinese government's refusal to allow the CCC delegation to visit Rome is in keeping with a similar decision to bar Chinese Catholic bishops from attending the Synod of Bishops in October.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39747 (330 words)

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