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  • Dealing with the HIV problem
    16/07/2009 11:43 am
    Sadly, HIV/AIDS has struck China. There are three primary causes. Prostitution, intravenous drug use, blood donation.
    For many years, China has been very coy about the widespread nature of the virus. Nowadays, there is a great deal of openness.
  • Ethical Business in the Protestant Tradition
    13/07/2009 12:46 pm
    I remember it well, in the summer of 2012, while I was still an undergraduate at Beijing People’s University taking my degree in International Relations, I whimsically signed up for a summer course entitled ‘Western Businessmen Speak Out’...
  • "Pioneering scholarship coordinator is not an oxymoron"
    10/07/2009 3:36 pm
    Honestly speaking, I’m a little unnerved. The driver, who is the also the village Bimo, is controlling the car as if he is in a Shamanistic state. He might believe that the spirits he perceives are benevolent, but I believe that as little as I trust his road awareness!
  • When pig poo changes lives...
    10/07/2009 12:25 pm
    Luo Ping walked out of his home with a swagger in his step and a grin on his face. His wife had just given birth to their second child. Like Ping, his wife exhausted but ecstatic, could look back on a year so different from all the previous ones. Last year, Mrs Luo had been in a very frail state. She would spend day with a child strapped to her back walking to and from the forest to collect wood for the fire that was so crucial to their every day existence. She had little time for herself, and even less for her husband. It was unsurprising that the second child they so craved had not arrived.
  • The Credit Crunch reaches China
    22/01/2009 11:23 am
    What does all this mean for the church in China? Firstly, many Christian brothers and sisters, already on low pay in both cities and rural areas, will be hard hit. Many will be thrown out of work with little to fall back on. Secondly, the churches...
  • Will China change the rules about House Churches?
    17/12/2008 1:55 pm
    Between 21-22 November this year a major symposium on house-churches was held in a suburb of Beijing. What was noteworthy was that it was sponsored – the first time ever – by a branch of the Chinese government’s State Council.
  • Hunger in the new Xianggu
    16/10/2008 11:28 am
    I see openness in Xianggu and its people. There is an "acceleration", and the door seemed to be opened at this time and season. Despite being surrounded by materialism, the people are hungry and searching for true love and contentment. There was such an receptiveness and freedom in the atmosphere this year. It was not hard to find people to talk to, they came to find us!
  • Letter from the earthquake zone
    23/06/2008 10:04 am
    Michelle is a Chinese Christian working as a nurse in the UK. As soon as she saw the news about the earthquake, she was desparate to help out. OMF was able to screen her application very quickly, she got the time off work, and by God's grace is now helping the injured, the poor and the homeless in Sichuan.
  • The Olympics - Looking to the Future
    10/06/2008 1:44 pm
    The Olympics were hoped by many to symbolise a new era of openness in China, not least in religious affairs. Some Christian organisations overseas were planning to use the Olympics as a springboard for mass evangelism. However, in the present atmosphere of tight control and fear that extremist groups could sabotage the Games, such evangelistic efforts would seem unwise, as they could provoke a negative response which would ultimately harm China’s own Christian community