Source: More than 10,000 Church of Almighty God Members Were Arrested in 2022
More than 10,000 Church of Almighty God Members Were Arrested in 2022
More than 3,000 were tortured and at least 14 were killed. These are the shocking figures of the church’s own yearly report on persecution. And they are believable.
“The most persecuted religious movement in China.” This was, in 2020, the subtitle of my book “Inside The Church of Almighty God” (CAG), published by Oxford University Press. It received positive reviews by specialized scholars (included by a leading Sinologist, David Ownby, in the authoritative “Journal of the American Academy of Religion”) and enjoyed better-than-usual sales for an academic book.
However, after three years, there is the risk that news about the persecution of the CAG in China would have a lesser impact on Western audiences, due to a phenomenon called “persecution fatigue,” which scholars have studied with respect to the kidnapping and killing of thousands of Christians in Nigeria.
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