Afghanistan: Has the Taliban Opened a Back Door for Chinese Missionaries?

Source: Back to Jerusalem, August 2021

The Taliban is turning to China for help after taking over Afghanistan last month, according to the Taliban Spokesman for International Media (English), Suhail Shaheen. The Taliban is excited about China’s potential economic “One Belt One Road” investment, without realizing the spiritual implication of the Silk Road strategy of the underground house church missionaries.

As Chinese businessmen and contractors begin to flood into Afghanistan by the thousands, laced in those numbers will be [Chinese] missionaries armed with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Could a back door to Afghanistan be opening up for the first time in our lifetime? Could the nightmare of the rise of the Taliban today, like the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949, be the beginning of the largest house church movement ever experienced in Afghanistan’s history?

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Another article asks the question, “What if the next Billy Graham is currently part of the Taliban?” See also Pray for the Taliban (SAT-7).

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