Source: Global Chinese Ministries Newsletter, December 2015<\/p>\n
Eric Liddell, the British Olympic champion who later became a London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary, has been honored for his commitment to the Chinese people. In a rare gesture of respect and admiration, a statue of the Christian athlete has been erected in the northern city of Tianjin. It was unveiled in a ceremony attended by his daughters, as well as survivors of the Japanese internment camp where he was held during the Second World War.<\/p>\n
The actor Joseph Fiennes has been cast as Liddell in an upcoming film. The film, called The Last Race<\/em>, will focus on the latter half of Liddell\u2019s life when he had left sports and moved to China as a missionary. It serves as a sequel to the well-known earlier film Chariots of Fire<\/em> which depicted his gold medal race at the 1924 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n Fiennes said: \u201cIt is one thing to preach the Bible, but it is another to actually live out your beliefs in an internment camp.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a> and its source<\/a>. See also another story about the film, The Last Race<\/a> (The Independent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Global Chinese Ministries Newsletter, December 2015 Eric Liddell, the British Olympic champion who later became a London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary, has been honored for his commitment to the Chinese people. In a rare gesture of respect and admiration, a statue of the Christian athlete has been erected in the northern city of Tianjin. … Continue reading CHINA: Eric Liddell Honored with Statue and Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","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=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}