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November 2017
Articles > Asia > Mongolia
Building for the future in Mongolia
Welcome to Mongolia: a country with as many people as Wales, spread across an area four times the size of Germany and almost seven times the size of the UK! Perhaps you’ve never noticed Mongolia on a map, enveloped by borders with Russia and China, and yet it’s time to start taking note of this often-ignored land. Big changes While notions of Mongolia as a nation defined by its history are common (the Mongol empire being the largest connected land empire in history), change is afoot. Since the fall of communism and the peaceful revolution of 1990, scores of people have migrated to the cities...
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By Zhou Laoshi
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June 2013
China
China’s tears
The early church history course came to a memorable end. The final session concerned the rise of Islam and its effects on the churches of North Africa and the Middle East in the seventh to eleventh centuries. We looked at the terrible legacy of the Crusades in terms of the lasting bitterness which resulted, and the consequent failure of western missionaries to make a significant impact on the Muslim world. I closed by suggesting that the burden of responsibility for evangelising the Islamic world may well now lie with Christians from East Asia, who are not saddled with that debilitating history; and by...
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By Colin Nevin
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February 2013
Articles > World Mission > Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) (1)
Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) (1) Most Christians are familiar with the story of Gladys Aylward, the diminutive London parlour maid and missionary to China, enshrined in Alan Burgess’ best-selling book The Small Woman and in the 1959 Hollywood film The inn of the sixth happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman. But there are many facets to Gladys’ story that are less well known. Colin Nevin, who visited Gladys’ remote village of Yangcheng and paid respects at her grave in Taiwan on behalf of her family in England, shares with Evangelical Times some discoveries about one of the Christian heroines of the twentieth century. Gladys May Aylward was born...
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By Zhou Lao Shi
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September 2012
China
WORLD MISSION – Ministering to the church in China
WORLD MISSION Ministering to the church in China God has blessed his people in the UK with a great heritage. For centuries the gospel has been preached here. We have a wealth of Christian literature, many excellent Bible teachers, conventions and Bible colleges. In many other areas of the world the church is much younger. God’s people do not have access to books and other resources. Opportunities for learning the Word of God more deeply are rare and understanding of the truth is shallow. In many places, believers and church leaders are well aware of what they lack in this respect. They are pleading...
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By Kieran Beville
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September 2012
China
World Mission – Changing contours in China
World Mission Changing contours in China The church in China is beginning to cast off its chains and is emerging as a powerful force for change. Is this phenomenon likely to transform the communist culture of a repressive regime and create a more open and tolerant society? Article 13 of the Constitution of the Republic of China provides that the people shall have freedom of religious belief, yet the government restricts religious practice to government-sanctioned organisations and registered places of worship. It also controls the growth and scope of activity of religious groups. Despite formal recognition of religious liberty, religious freedom is accorded little respect...
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