While it looked like China's policy towards Christians was getting better because of the Olympics that is not the case.  In truth, China is getting tougher on Christians.  The American pastors of the church my sister was attending in China who were visiting the United States were planning on returning to China when they were threatened that if they returned that they would be arrested.  This is only a small glimpse of China's continued oppression.  While China is trying to clean up Beijing to hide the truth about China they are working harder to suppress Christianity.  This is expressed by Professor Ying Nian Wu of UCLA when he says "The Chinese communist regime has not fulfilled its promise of improving human rights at all. On the contrary, it has launched another intensive wave of persecution in the name of preparing for the Olympics,"  Christians do have some support from people in power; in a report from the Australian website news.co.au President Bush vowed: "I will talk about the religious freedom and the importance of China recognizing that if you're allowed to worship freely it will benefit the society as a whole. The Chinese government should not fear the idea of people praying to a god as they see fit."  Again recognizing that the reason for the Chinese oppression is fear.  Thankfully our God is more powerful than the Chinese communist regime.  We should continue to show our support for the Chinese Christians and Christians all around the world who are oppressed through prayer and by not tolerating this oppression.

 

 

Sources:

The Epoch Times http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-2-26/66604.html

News.com.au http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23295555-23109,00.html