{"id":27557,"date":"2011-07-30T23:48:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_chinas_banned_churches_defy_regime\/"},"modified":"2011-07-30T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:48:58","slug":"wsj_chinas_banned_churches_defy_regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27557","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) China&#39;s Banned Churches Defy Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Sunday at the Beijing Zion Church, Pastor Jin Mingri laid out a vision for Christians in China that contrasts starkly with the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s tight reins on religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let your descendants become great politicians like Joseph and Daniel,&#8221; said Mr. Jin, referring to the Old Testament figures who surmounted challenges to become political leaders. &#8220;Let them influence the future course of this country,&#8221; the pastor said in one of several sermons to his 800-member church.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jin is one of a growing group of Protestant leaders challenging China&#8217;s state-run religious system, in an escalating struggle largely unnoticed by the outside world. For the first time, China&#8217;s illegal underground churches, whose members are estimated in the tens of millions, are mounting a unified and increasingly organized push for legal recognition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304567604576451913744126214.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent Sunday at the Beijing Zion Church, Pastor Jin Mingri laid out a vision for Christians in China that contrasts starkly with the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s tight reins on religion. &#8220;Let your descendants become great politicians like Joseph<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27557\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,502,144,119,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}