Posts Tagged: Mission Methods in Manchuria

New Translation of John Ross Mission Manual Released to Refute China Government Accusations of Missionary Imperialism

New Translation of John Ross Mission Manual Released to Refute China Government Accusations of Missionary Imperialism

The Chinese government’s new February religious regulations prevent Chinese churches from unapproved contact with foreign Christians. The goal, according to the Chinese government, is the ‘Sinicization’ of Christianity to overcome what they call Christianity’s imperialist past. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, the concept of Sinicization did not begin ...

The True Sinicization of John Ross and the Counterfeit Sinicization of the Chinese Communist Party

Today the Chinese government is officially working to“Sinicize” Christianity. This kind of Sinicization is best defined as “the program of forced assimilation of religions to Chinese culture, which includes submission to the Chinese Communist Party.”[i]But for more than a millennium before the Communist Party of China began their project, Western missionaries like John Ross had …