Sources: Various<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exporting Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Government efforts to control of the church in China may be old news, but now, apparently, the country has launched a plan to make Christianity around the world look more like it does in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read China Announces Plans to \u201cChange the Face of World Christianity\u201d<\/a> (Back to Jerusalem).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Revival of Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to leading pastors in Taipei, Taiwanese Christians are responding to the threat of war with China with an unprecedented movement of prayer and fasting for revival, unity, repentance and protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read 40,000 Revival Prayer Groups Spring Up as Taiwan\u2019s Christians Face Beijing\u2019s Belligerence<\/a> (Christian Broadcasting Network).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Young Adults in China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On a more general note, you might appreciate an article about how young people in China are turning away from high-pressured careers to stay at home with their families\u2014that is, their families of origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read What are \u201cfull-time children\u201d? Young adults in China are rejecting the rat race and getting paid by their parents to do chores while living at home<\/a> and (possibly related?) Life as a Chinese Gen-Zer just got a lot harder thanks to the Chinese government hiking college tuition by up to 54%<\/a> (Business Insider).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sources: Various Exporting Religion Government efforts to control of the church in China may be old news, but now, apparently, the country has launched a plan to make Christianity around the world look more like it does in China. Read China Announces Plans to \u201cChange the Face of World Christianity\u201d (Back to Jerusalem). A Revival … Continue reading East Asia: Three Interesting Stories About China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}