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Tag Archives: China
Photograph of the day: Queen’s Road in Hong Kong on Chinese New Year’s Day, 1902
Click on the image to enlarge it. See also: Photograph of the day: A boat sails down a river in the Jiangsu province of China in 1946
Posted in History, Visual Arts
Tagged 1902, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Photography
Photograph of the day: A boat sails down a river in the Jiangsu province of China in 1946
Click on the image to enlarge it. See also: Photograph of the day: Queen’s Road in Hong Kong on Chinese New Year’s Day, 1902
Posted in Visual Arts
Tagged 1946, Asia, China, History, Jiangsu Province, Photography, Sailing
What atheistic Communism has most obviously done for China: A visual presentation
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Posted in Atheism, Secularism, Visual Arts
Tagged China, Chinese, Environment, God's Creation, Pollution
Pic of the day: Hazy day in China
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Posted in Visual Arts
Tagged China, Pollution, Swimming
Fanatical Buddhists endanger people’s lives in China by releasing thousands of poisonous snakes
Chinese Buddhists ’cause plague of serpents’ The 50 members of the “Let Blessings and Wisdom Grow” Buddhist group left Beijing in a nine vehicle convoy last Friday, driving for half a day with their cargo of snakes into the countryside of … Continue reading
Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama refuses to condemn monk self-immolations
Dalai Lama ducks question on monk self-immolations The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest China’s occupation of Tibet. “No answer,” he said, saying it was a sensitive political … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, World Events
Tagged Buddhism, Buddhist Monks, China, Dalai Lama, Religions, Self-Immolation, Tibet
Pic of the day: Chinese sewer transformed into a sea of colour after dumping of millions of pill capsules
Environmental officials in China have been left baffled by the mysterious dumping of millions of pill capsules which has left a sewer awash with colour. The bizarre sight along Zhengshang Road in Zhengzhou, China, has seen a 900 ft. ditch transformed into … Continue reading
Posted in Sciences, Visual Arts
Tagged China, Environment, Water
The atheist legacy of hate: Chinese communist soldier smashes religious objects, including a crucifix, 1967
Posted in Atheism, Secularism, Visual Arts
Tagged Angry Atheists, China, Chinese, Communists, Militant Secularists, Richard Dawkins
Worker brushes clean the Anzhaite Long-Span Suspension Bridge in Jishou, Hunan, China — 1,102 feet up
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Posted in Visual Arts
Tagged Bridges, China
Atheist Chinese government still oppressing Christians: Police raid underground Christian newspapers
Chinese Police Raid Underground Christian Newspapers In Latest ‘House Church’ Crackdown Chinese police raided the offices of two underground Christian newspapers on Monday and seized four prominent staff members who are still missing, the Texas-based Christian rights group ChinaAid reports. … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism
Tagged Angry Atheists, Atheist Oppression of Christians, China, Religious Persecution, Richard Dawkins
Chinese atheists still oppressing Christians: Fr. Joseph Shi Liming’s gravestone smashed by police thugs
Police destroy priest’s tombstone. Act was part of attempt to ban requiem service for Father Joseph Shi Liming Father Joseph Shi Liming Fr. Shi’s tombstone, with the words “the grave of Fr. Shi Liming” carved upon it, was scheduled to … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Politics, World Events
Tagged Angry Atheists, Atheistic Communism, China, Religious Persecution, Richard Dawkins, State Oppression
Historian Anthony E. Clark describes his visit to two Roman Catholic villages in China
Anthony Clark describes his visit to two Catholic villages in China. At last we walked to the impressive new church, which is now under construction and being modeled after the previous church that was attacked by the Red Guards in … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Churches, History
Tagged Anthony E. Clark, Boxer Rebellion, China, Chinese, Martyrdom, Martyrs
Photograph of the day: A beautiful book by Hudson Taylor from the great age of British overseas missions
‘China’s Millions’ by J. Hudson Taylor (editor), London: Morgan & Scott, 1885
Posted in History, Visual Arts
Tagged Asia, Books, Boxer Rebellion, China, Chinese, Evangelism, Hudson Taylor, Missionaries, Missions
A petition worth signing: free Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng
Missing By Force for Over One Year – WHERE IS GAO ZHISHENG?
Posted in Politics, World Events
Tagged China
Atheist state sentences Christians to one year’s hard labour for forming house church
On July 21, 2010, Weidu District Court upheld the administrative decision sentencing Christians Gao Jianli and Liu Yunhua to one year in re-education through labour. Read more
Posted in Atheism, Politics, World Events, Secularism
Tagged China