Source: Frontiers USA, September 10, 2018<\/p>\n
In August 2016, Xinjiang\u2019s newly-appointed Communist party secretary began instituting hardline policies and passing regulations to strip Uyghurs of even the most basic religious rights and cultural freedoms. Long beards and face veils are now prohibited. Even the act of praying raises suspicion.<\/p>\n
In recent crackdowns, as many as one million Uyghurs have been detained. They\u2019re sent to mass internment camps\u2014heavily guarded centers with fortified doors and barbed wire. Inside the internment camps, detainees must withstand unhealthy living conditions, poor nutrition, violence, and torture.<\/p>\n
The Communist regime denies the existence of internment camps. Officials insist they\u2019re political education centers, established to fight against religious extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n
Critics, however, say the camps reflect a state policy of cultural genocide and an attempt to erase the cultural identity of 12-15 million Uyghurs.<\/p>\n
We praise God for the hundreds of Uyghurs who\u2014in the midst of a living hell\u2014have found eternal hope in Jesus Christ and have placed their faith in him. These faithful believers are suffering.<\/p>\n
Please join us in praying for the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Readers might also appreciate Bob Blincoe\u2019s short but stirring article about what our Spanish-speaking friends call los pueblos abandonados<\/a>, the abandoned (or unreached) peoples.<\/p>\n \u00bb Justin Long\u2019s recent weekly roundups<\/a> include many links to informative stories about events in China. Take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Frontiers USA, September 10, 2018 In August 2016, Xinjiang\u2019s newly-appointed Communist party secretary began instituting hardline policies and passing regulations to strip Uyghurs of even the most basic religious rights and cultural freedoms. Long beards and face veils are now prohibited. Even the act of praying raises suspicion. In recent crackdowns, as many as … Continue reading CHINA: Praying for the Uyghurs<\/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-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","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=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}