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A Chinese pastor is released after 7 years in prison, only to find himself unable to get an ID - AP News (and a million other places) (apnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article, written by a Taiwan-based "sinologist," has been copied and pasted over several major outlets and a dozen other Christian clickbait news sites. The pastor in question is John Sanqiang Cao, and was charged with human trafficking upon returning from a mission trip to Myanmar.

I don't know anything about the validity of the charges he's facing, and I'm quite certain that IF the events alleged by the article are true, then this is a clear miscarriage of justice.

There is something very funny about this story appearing all over American media, though. As if ex-convicts in the US don't deal with very similar problems...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fair point. However, the modern trend of Western Christian missionaries is explicitly associated with colonialism. Anyone who willingly contributes to spreading that kind of poison should be viewed with scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it might be fair to say that while Christianity did exist in China for over a thousand years, it's probably also true that the Christianity introduced by colonial missionaries barely resembled Chinese Christianity as it existed.