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On November 17, 2017 the on-line version of Christianity Today reported that several months in advance of the implementation date for several nation-wide religious restrictions, Chinese Christian villagers in Hangzhou province were told to take down displays of Jesus, crosses, and Bibles verses from…

Liang Feng’en was a famous hunter in the Heilongjiang province, China (bordering Russia). "Good hunters enjoyed respect and were even idolized," Liang said. In 1998 China implemented strict environmental protection measures, and in 2000 the Worldwide Fund for Nature's China Office asked him to join their…

In March of 2017, Christine Wallace purchased a purse from Wal-Mart. While clearing out the packaging, she found a hand written note in the bottom of the bag. To her surprise, she discovered a note in mandarin that read, “Inmates in China’s Yingshan Prison work 14 hours a day and are not allowed to rest…

An emergency dispatch officer in eastern China received an unusual emergency call from a young woman and realized she was sending a coded message. The woman said she wanted to order a takeout of a pair of chopsticks and an egg. Police immediately understood that the woman was in danger because the call…

The Chinese government is requiring all recipients of government payments to give up their worship of God. “The participants were ordered to remove crosses, religious symbols and images from the homes of people of faith who receive social welfare payments and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao…

China has charged Rachel Han with smuggling. Her “smuggling” was the result of her role in China’s underground railroad. This network helps North Korean defectors make their way to South Korea. Her commitment to Christ began when her baby daughter died of leukemia. As she lamented her baby’s death and…

Some families pass down jewelry, watches, and riches of many kinds. A Michigan family has a unique heirloom that is handed down through the generations. It is a 141-year-old fruitcake. Fidelia Ford baked the cake in 1878. Her tradition was baking a fruit cake and letting it age for a year before serving…

The owner of a restaurant in southwest China has an unusual offer for patrons. He offers a discount to customers who can make him laugh. The owner said his discounts range from 10 percent for jokes that make him smile all the way to 50 percent for a hearty laugh. Several residents came to participate…

In a new book on religion in China, former Wall Street Journal reporter, Ian Johnson talks about the resurgence of religion in the supposedly atheistic country. Johnson says that the Chinese government does not object to personal piety, but they do not want believers whose faith affects their lifestyle.…

A woman in southern China chose to ride through a train station’s luggage x-ray machine rather than part with her bag. Authorities say the woman said she wanted to protect the money in her purse. A security video shows the woman leaving the screening area and emerging from the device. A still x-ray image…

The city of Shanghai, China has conducted a large garbage collecting project, and residents have been upset with the extra attention it required. One man is feeling better about the effort after a garbage collector returned gold the man accidentally threw away. Police said the man threw out a cardboard…

Japan and China are exploring a new source of fuel hidden in the world’s oceans that supply enough power to meet global demand for hundreds of years. The fuel, known as “combustible ice,” is technically called methane hydrate, a frozen mixture of water and concentrated natural gas. The Chinese news agency…

In China, a restaurant begin a promotion that was so successful that it put them out of business. They offered a month of “all you can eat,” as it turns out their customers had quite an appetite. Halfway into the promotion the restaurant was $100,000 in debt and had to close their doors. —Jim L. Wilson…

The Chinese government in Beijing keeps adding restrictions to the house church movement in China. The reason for the government’s concern is the continual rapid growth of Christianity throughout the country. When Chinese Christian leader, Ying Fuk-Tsang was asked about his hope for the future of the…

Chinese police are punishing drivers who they catch not switching to low beams only when other cars approach, and give them a compulsory fine of 300 Yuan and then force them to sit down and stare into the full glare of headlight for a minute. Traffic police in one southern Chinese city have even posted…

Wise people find a way or make a way when faced with obstacles. When too much rain threatened to ruin the cherry crop in New Zealand, orchard owners used helicopters to dry the crop so they could meet the demand created by the Chinese New Year celebration. Over the past seven years, China has become…

In China, officials are forgiving the fine for minor driving offenses if the driver confesses to the error on social media and gets 20 likes. —Jim L. Wilson https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/603844682/avoid-traffic-fines-by-confessing-online The old adage says that “confession is good for the soul,” in…

For years a priceless vase sat in a French family’s attic, hidden in a shoebox. The family had received the heirloom as part of an inheritance, but stashed the boxes in the attic planning to deal with them later. When the owner opened the box, they were stunned by the shades of green, blue, yellow, and…

In the book Voices of the Faithful Beth Moore includes an interesting story about missionaries to rural China who every Christmas would make a manger and place a baby doll in it in lieu of having a Christmas tree. One day as the husband was explaining the manger to a visiting Chinese friend he meant…

China has created a problem. For years they had a one-child policy and as a result prospective parents aborted their child when they found out it was a girl. Now they have a shortage of women that rises to the level of a crisis. Zhejiang University economics professor Xie Zuoshi has a possible solution.…

Alexander Cirk ended up in a Chinese hospital after spending ten days in an airport waiting for a woman he met on the Internet. Cirk came to the airport hoping to meet a 26-year-old named Zhang. After waiting eight days, he told a local broadcaster than he would not leave until his “girlfriend” arrived.…

Researchers in China found that people who eat a diet rich in spicy foods such as curry and fresh chili pepper can reduce their chances of premature death by up to 14 percent. Researchers examining the diets of almost 500,000 people in China over seven years recorded that those who ate spicy foods one…

Superbugs that are resisting even the most powerful antibiotics, are infecting people and livestock in China. Some Microbiologists warn that it may only be a matter of time before universal drug resistance is widespread and existing antibiotics will become obsolete. “This isn’t going to happen overnight,…

A death simulator called Xinglai is open in China. When you “die,” you lay down on a conveyer belt through a dark tunnel that simulates cremation and then being “reborn” out the other side through a latex womb. The experience “gives you the chance to calm down, give in to some deeper thoughts, and think…

A pair of men in China can teach us a thing or two about working together in the church. Jia Haixa is blind. Jia Wenqi is a double amputee. They found it very difficult to find traditional jobs. In 2001 they began working together planting trees along the riverbank in their hometown of Hebei. The two…