作者: Optima (wei) 看板: Pray
標題: 請為大陸地下教會受迫害禱告[翻譯]
時間: Fri Nov 13 18:48:02 1998



   以下文章是翻譯自http://www.persecutedchurch.org/news/news2.htm
   部分句子採用意譯以貼近原文涵義,學識有限, 翻譯不通順處還請見諒.
   原文附在最後.請多多轉載並為他們禱告,我們的弟兄姊妹需要我們一同來扶持.

中國大陸最新消息


家庭教會(地下教會)領袖呼籲中共當局釋放監禁者
(Compass 南針報報導)

  基督徒領袖沈曉分(譯音 Shen Xianfeng)對他的家庭教會運動被冠上"異教"的罪名抗議
中共當局,並且呼籲當局釋放遭到遣送勞改營的教會同工. 在1998年中, 有十六個中國
福音團契的領袖,包括沈曉分,都被下放到為期二到三年的勞改營裡.沈曉分自己因為必須
接受醫療看護而被釋放,他說出了在監獄中所受到的侮辱與虐待.他寫道:"我們時常被拷打
審問,也常在冷冽酷寒的天氣下身體被扒光,被電風扇的冷風直灌."

  沈曉分居住在河南省,極力的為他的團契遭受到異教的罪名而提出抗議. 他說他們在
信仰上是正統的,並且沒有做出造反叛國的事情; 所謂被冠上"異教"的罪名,純粹是認定
他們與外國勢力掛勾.
  大部分的地下家庭教會都沒有加入並且屈服於官方的教會及神學認同.河南省的教會是
目前中國各省分中經歷最突破性成長的地方.中國觀察家們估計當地約有一千到兩千萬的
信徒,而且絕大多數是在地下教會（家庭教會)中敬拜神.


家庭教會(地下教會)領袖呼籲中共當局停止迫害
(Compass 南針報報導)

  一份在過去二十年當中,大陸地下教會最重要的聲明文件,由大陸十個主要家庭教會的
領袖共同提出,他們呼籲中共政府停止對他們的宗教迫害.在今年八月二十二號,七點申明
在河南省提出,河南省是中國家庭教會復興運動的中心,這個運動已經傳遍了中國大陸
大部分的省分.

  這份聲明呼籲當局改變鎮壓宗教運動的法令,並且無條件釋放所有目前在勞改營當中的
家庭教會基督徒.他們也強烈呼籲當局正視家庭教會已經成為中國基督教主流的事實,
而政府控制的三自教會已經無法與之相比.家庭教會領袖們籲請共產黨中央領導人與他們
對話,以尋求協調及減緩衝突.家庭教會在中國大陸已經有為數八千萬的基督徒,比政府控制
的三自教會一千萬信徒的數目還多的多.


地下教會與官方三自教會調解無望
(Compass 南針報報導)

  家庭教會領袖已經預料到在八月二十二日的聲明(包括與政府對話,與三自教會對話)會
遭到斷然拒絕.十個主要地下教會提出七點聲明呼籲政府承認地下教會與三自教會一樣都
是中國基督教的合法成員.然而中共官方三自教會的高萱季牧師(譯音 Cao Sheng Jie)
發表談話指出, 要調解是非常困難的.三自教會高牧師說目前中國基督徒有一千萬人,
是1949年時的十四倍.她說,"上述的事實提供了一個有力的證據--就是中國的信徒充分享有
宗教信仰的自由!"

  另一名上海地下教會的領袖說:"我們怎麼跟那些說我們'充分享有宗教信仰的自由'的人
對話?他們忙著跟那些國際救援傳道會對話,根本沒時間理睬我們."

[原文]

China

         House Church Leader Appeals for Release of Prisoners

         (Compass)--Christian leader Shen Xianfeng protested his house
         church movement being labeled a "cult" and called on the China
         government to release his fellow workers from forced labor camps.
         Sixteen leaders of the China Evangelical Fellowship, including Shen,
         were each given 2-3 year labor camp terms in 1998. Released for
         medical reasons, Shen reported abuse in prison. He wrote, "We were
         constantly interrogated and beaten and exposed to the cold wind of
         an electric fan in severe winter conditions." Shen, who is from Henan
         province, vigorously defended his group against the charge of being
         a cult. He said they were orthodox in faith and patriotic in outlook.
         The issue of labeling house church movements as "cults" in order to
         criminalize them has outraged international opinion. Most house
         church movements do not join the official church on theological
         grounds. Henan province has seen the most spectacular growth of
         the church in all of China's provinces. China watchers estimate that
         between 10-20 million believers may live there, the vast majority
         worshipping in house churches.

         House Church Leaders Appeal to End Persecution

         (Compass)--In the most important document to come from
         unregistered churches in China in the last two decades, house church
         leaders of 10 major "streams" have published a united appeal to the
         Chinese government to end persecution. The seven-point appeal was
         issued August 22 in Henan province, the center of the house church
         movement revival that has now penetrated most provinces
         throughout the country. The appeal calls on the government to
         change repressive religious regulations and to release unconditionally
         all house church Christians presently in labor camps. It also urges the
         authorities to accept the reality that the house churches are the
         mainstream of Christianity in China, with a membership far
         outnumbering the government-controlled Three Self Patriotic
         Movement (TSPM) churches. The house church leaders call on the
         central leadership of the Communist Party to begin a dialogue with
         them to seek reconciliation and to decrease confrontation. House
         churches in China may contain as many as 80 million Christians, far
         outnumbering the 10 million associated with TSPM churches.

         Little Hope of Reconciliation Between House and Three Self
         Church

         (Compass)--House church leaders are expecting a rebuff to their
         August 22 appeal for dialogue with the government and the official
         Protestant church, the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM). A
         seven-point appeal representing 10 major house church movements
         called on the government to recognize the house churches as well as
         the TSPM as "all members of mainstream Christianity in China."
         However, a speech given by Rev. Cao Sheng Jie of the government's
         China Christian Council indicates reconciliation will be difficult. Rev.
         Cao said there were 10 million Christians in China now--14 times as
         many as in 1949. She added, "The above facts vigorously prove that
         Chinese religious believers really enjoy freedom of religious belief."
         Said a Shanghai house church leader, "How can we possibly open a
         dialogue with people who claim we 'really enjoy freedom of religious
         belief?' They are too busy spewing propaganda for international
         consumption to talk to us."