Check out this video and be amazed how much these Chinese Christians longed to have a Bible of their own. In many such places they have to share Bibles or portions of a Bible. Many do not have their own Bible, but today the people in the video finally get a copy of their own.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is one of the premier medical publications in the world, and this week it came out with stunning new data (here) about the increased incidence of advanced breast cancer among women ages 25-39.
Advanced breast cancer was defined as that type of cancer which has metastasized to locations other than the breast at diagnosis, and 70% of these young women die in less than 5 years from diagnosis. The study found that between 1976 and 2009 the rate of advanced breast cancer grew by 90% in this age group.
These are alarming statistics!
While the article does not speculate on reasons for these results, the drastic increase in breast cancer begs the question if abortion is associated with and potentially causative of breast cancer. After doing a PubMed search I found data which may support this association. For instance, a Chinese study involving about 1,300 patients found a positive association between abortion and breast cancer (here). Also here, here and here.
Such a link is more detectable in patients who had 2nd trimester abortions.
It is important to note that many mainstream pro-choice groups deny this association, and have data to back up their claim. But this data is taken from Europe (large Dutch study) where pregnancy terminations are performed very early in the 1st trimester, and the link to breast cancer cannot be elucidated as well as in 2nd trimester cases.
Professor Angela Lanfranchi, MD, F.A.C.S., an Ob-Gyn doctor, explains the biological connection between induced abortion and breast cancer:
“A woman gains protection from breast cancer by completing a full-term
pregnancy. In utero, her offspring produce hormones that mature 85
percent of the mother’s breast tissue into cancer-resistant breast tissue.
If the pregnancy ends through an induced abortion or a premature birth
before thirty-two weeks, the mother’s breasts will have only partially
matured, retaining even more cancer-susceptible breast tissue than
when the pregnancy began. This increased amount of immature breast
tissue will leave the mother with more sites for cancer initiation, thereby
increasing her risk of breast cancer.”
The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of the devastating impact abortion is having on our society and the lives of the women involved. There are also many other studies showing negative health consequences as a result of abortion. This is the truth and it must be told, even though the abortion platform is trying to suppress it.
I had written a post (here) about the online magazine Christianity Today, questioning whether it can be called Christian based on some the articles, editorials, and opinion pieces they publish.
So, it was not surprising to see an article in Christianity Today entitled “China Isn’t Trying to Wipe Out Christianity” which is basically an apologetic piece on the claim that persecution is really not that bad in China.
Having lived in communist Romania until age 13, and having seen the persecution methods employed by that government against my local church, I can testify that what I read in this article was a message influenced by communist propaganda. The communist Romanians had freedom of speech, religion and assembly as part of their core values. Allegedly. And theoretically. But they were vehemently persecuting the existing ne0-Protestant churches for their FAITH under the banner of national security. Any prayer meeting was seen as a national threat. Every church was suspected of being a potential western ally. Every faithful Christian was a potential revolutionary. All of these to cover the real motive which was religious persecution.
They used the seemingly legitimate national defense excuse to accomplish their atheistic goals of suppressing the truth and stamping out religious practice.
And the propaganda disseminated in this article by Christianity Today follows some of the same old techniques we have seen in the former eastern communist bloc. For example:
1. The government is really not after those practicing their faith in house churches. Oh no. They are after anti-government elements that pose a national threat… So I ask… National threat from whom? Is the US or western Europe about to go to war with China? How ridiculous does that sound? Are they afraid that individual house cell meetings for prayer are going to topple a massive totalitarian government? Even that is highly improbable!
2. The Chinese government is not persecuting the faith, they are trying to suppress protests which can be embarrassing. So I ask… Why are Christians trying to protest in the first place if they are not persecuted for their faith?
3. The Chinese government is not persecuting Christians… only the ones who are trying to publicize human rights violations. Again, when freedom of religion is suppressed, that is a human rights violation translating into religion persecution.
Quote from the article: “The point here is not in any way to minimize the seriousness of these cases, but simply to point out that these believers were not persecuted for their faith or even for belonging to a house church…” This is exactly what the propaganda is! That the persecution has nothing to do with faith but with anti-government activity. We have seen this cover story time and time again in Romania.
This is an old trick and we are not going to fall for it!
Can we now see how ridiculous it is to blame Christian “trouble makers” to divert attention from the real underlying impetus of the atheist Chinese government, their real motive being the persecution of the Christian faith? And Christianity Today is buying it despite multiple other reports and assessments with respect to the intense persecution of the faithful in China!
Even though Christianity Today may not (want to) discern the truth, we know that our brothers and sisters in China are suffering at the hands of an atheist totalitarian regime which wants to inhibit their faith in God. We will continue to pray for these Christians and remember Matthew 5:10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
photo by CindyDuCheney @whispersngiggles.com
The systematic killing of unborn baby girls via sex selective abortion is reaching unprecedented levels in China, India, and other Asian and Eastern European countries. The ungodly practice of aborting a baby for the simple fact that she is a girl is one of the most abhorring things this planet has seen, and I wonder how long before God’s patience runs out and His wrath will be served for this evil.
The implementation of the One Child Policy in China in 1978, and the availability of ultrasound technology in the recent past in rural areas of Asia have led to the realization of a staggering statistic: 163 million unborn baby girls were aborted simply because it was inconvenient that they were female (1).
In countries such as China and India the male to female ratio is as least 120 men for every 100 women (2). Just to compare, the normal and healthy gender ratio at birth is approximately 106 boys to 100 girls (3). That WAS the ratio in China in 1979. By 2020, the Chinese government estimates that there will be at least 30 million men of marriageable age that may be unable to find a spouse (4).
There are many reasons that sociologists and anthropologists will give for this wicked phenomenon, but frankly these are very secondary when you consider the murderous act itself. How are we to consider cultural, religious and economic factors when the blood of these innocent lives is crying out to their Creator for justice?
You make think this is shocking and that it could never happen in the US?
The PRENDA Act introduced in Congress in 2012 would have made it a crime for anyone attempting to coerce or solicit a woman to abort based on the race or sex of her unborn child. The people introducing the bill thought it would be a no-brain-er to pass and the vote was taken under a fast-track procedure called “suspension” which requires 2/3 of the House vote. Guess what?! It failed! Here in the US where half the people claim to be evangelicals! Look up here to see how your congress representative voted.
Not only do women have many things set against them in this world as adults, but now the fight for their life begins in the womb. A $12 ultrasound readily available in Asia makes this all possible. It is in fact human evil and wickedness that makes this happen, and it is directly related to idolatry.
Religious beliefs often bolster the preference for male offspring. Some Asian communities persist in the deep-seated belief that ancestors are worshiped in the afterlife through the male line (1). Add to that the high importance of the family name, and the fact that boys become the family retirement account… and the idolatrous picture begins to take shape. Everything in these mostly Hindu and Buddhist regions is geared toward self-improvement and self-worship, and it so happens that a baby girl will get in the way of it!
Experts on this phenomenon are currently predicting and in India sex selective abortion will get MUCH worse. We are only seeing the beginning stages.
How much worse than that 163 million girls already murdered? How much more shedding of the innocent blood of unborn children?
The words of the wise man in Proverbs 6:17-18 reminds us that among the seven things that God finds abominable are
“…hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil…”
How long, God, before human wickedness reaches its full measure?
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1. Christianity Today. Genocide in Shades of Pink. 28 December 2012
2. The Economist. The War on Baby Girls: Gendercide. 4 March 2010
3. United Nations Population Fund
4. http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/category/topics/gendercide
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