Seminary students in China are being forced to have “absolute obedience” to the Communist Party and to deny God.
A correspondent from China Aid, a persecution watchdog group, said in a
report that there is video of seminary students in a graduation
ceremony at Zhejiag Theological Seminary singing the Chinese anthem.
“It is obvious the seminary has generated into absolute obedience to
the Communist Party’s so-called Christian pastors’ education base,
becoming a Communist Party school dressed in the cloak of Christianity,”
the correspondent Guo Baosheng said.
"In this way, they submit to Caesar and [operate] contrary to God. They
distort the true way [to God], and [these actions] will certainly
accelerate the demise of the Three-Self Church and its seminary."
According to reports, the seminary’s president, Pastor Pan Xingwang, is
an advocate for the cross demolition campaign and has encouraged
Christians not to fight the government.
"Over the past year, within the Christian churches of Zhejiang,
something took place that we do not want to see, and we do not want to
hear,” Pan said at the 2016 spring semester opening ceremony. “Please
learn this lesson and pray for the churches, remind students to be more
alert, make a clear faith, care for the churches, respect the law and be
good shepherds of the new era."
China is set to become the largest Christian country in the world by 2030 with about 200 million Chinese believers.
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