My friend Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, emailed me to let me know that one of her fellow witnesses at the One Child Policy hearing before Congress last week was detained when he returned to Beijing. Jianyg Tianyong was thrown violently into a police car while other police officers beat his wife in front of the couple's 7-year-old daughter.
Reggie writes:
When he was leaving [Congressman] Chris Smith's office after the Hearing, Jiang Tianyong said that he was worried about his wife and daughter, and we prayed protection for him and his family. Now his worst nightmare has materialized. Could you please pray for him and contact the Chinese Embassy in D.C.? (Their contact information is in ChinaAid's announcement below.) I know Jiang has been released for the time being, but he could easily disappear, like Gao Zhisheng, unless people intervene with prayer and prayerful action.
More information can be found here (scroll down)--including the telephone number of the Chinese Embassy. But we're not certain it's the right number. Reggie later wrote to tell me, "I just looked up the Chinese Embassy in D.C. at 3505 International Place (which I understand is their current address) and their contact page has been deleted!
"There are also Chinese embassies in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and Houston. ChinaAid is looking for a phone number somewhere that works."
When we get one, I'll update.
Into the Fray
By: Alan Eason|Published: February 8, 2012 6:57 PM
We are very excited about all the great commenting that goes on The BreakPoint blog. It is growing and more people are getting engaged. Only one hitch -- it is pretty much "among Christians."
I'd like to invite you (even those have not commented here yet) to go out to the front lines with us -- to the Colson Center YouTube channel. Click below to find out why.
Eric Metaxas, who for two years was a member of the BreakPoint writing staff, was the guest speaker at this year's National Prayer Breakfast, held a few days ago at the Hilton in D.C. See him pictured here, making President Obama laugh. But after the jokes, Eric gently spoke truth to power regarding abortion, just as Mother Teresa did some years ago when she spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.
In another case, a 15-year-old Wisconsin student was threatened and verbally abused by school superintendent of Shawano High School for writing an op-ed in opposion to gay adoption. Ironically, the article was a school assignment.
Five or six years ago Focus on the Family released “The Truth Project” DVD series, and I went through it as a discussion leader of a small group. I haven’t looked at it since, so when a friend of mine said a group was going to go through it and invited me, I agreed. I thought it would be good to refresh what I learned from the DVDs and maybe learn some new things I missed the last time.
What a sad statement about the growing culture of death in the Netherlands: Advocates for euthanasia and assisted suicide are celebrating a decade of their legality by hosting a weeklong film festival called the "Week of Euthanasia."
Sadly, after getting their foot in the proverbial door, the advocates continually redefine the criteria for which people "request," voluntarily or involuntarily, suicide. READ FULL ARTICLE »
