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We have previously reported on China’s efforts to produce a Bible that is more acceptable to the communist party. It is said that the new Bible will incorporate Buddhist scripture and Confucian teachings, along with communist ideology. The purpose is “cultivating and implementing the socialist core values” of Chinese society into the scriptures. It is easier than you might think

This month, according to the Muslim calendar, is Ramadan. Ramadan fasting is an Islamic tradition practiced by Muslims from all around the world. This period of fasting is when Muslims refrain from consuming food and drinks from dawn until dusk for the entire month. The price of food is very high in Afghanistan so many people there are struggling to

Millions of residents in Shanghai, China, woke up to find that their homes surrounded by large metal fences, put up in the middle of the night by government officials, to keep people from going outside. Shanghai is in strict lockdown right now, turning the 25 million-strong city into the world’s largest prison. “We thought that the lockdown was only going

Dong Zhao, a Chinese Christian, was beaten repeatedly by the police for preaching the Gospel in China, according to FTV News. Dong Zhao was arrested while at a Bible Study meeting in Henan Province, when police rushed in and seized all the believers. Their Bibles were immediately confiscated and used as evidence of their illegal activities. Dong Zhao was told

Testing is a way for us to measure where we are. Many of us have experienced both victory and failure at the same time – can these two states exist at the same time in the same place? Can we desire to follow God and run away from God at the same time? Andrei – a BTJ hacker from Romania

Brother Yun, also known as the Heavenly Man, travels around the world sharing his amazing testimony, but not many people get the chance to hear some of his deeper teachings that have grown from his experiences of imprisonment and persecution. We have shared videos online from Brother Yun’s teachings, but sometimes with all the social media shadow-banning and official accounts

In the last decade, BTJ has distributed hundreds of thousands of Bibles in Iran, in both digital and printed format, but there are some more remote areas that have yet to get access to the Bible. This week, we experienced an amazing breakthrough when BTJ was able to deliver Bibles in an Iranian village that does not have access to