{"id":1170,"date":"2020-01-14T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:57:53","slug":"christians-see-alarming-trend-worldwide-as-china-builds-blueprint-of-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/2020\/01\/14\/christians-see-alarming-trend-worldwide-as-china-builds-blueprint-of-persecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians see &#8216;alarming&#8217; trend worldwide as China builds &#8216;blueprint of persecution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Shortly before<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Trump<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>signed phase one of the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/us-china-sign-historic-trade-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic trade deal<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China<\/a>, a Chinese pastor described the fear and intimidation<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/faith-values\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">believers<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>are enduring under the Communist government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The Chinese government has now placed severe restrictions and policies on the house churches asking neighbors to spy on one another, pressuring school teachers and college professors to betray and sign a statement to denounce their own faith as well to do the same to students,&#8221; Pastor Jian Zhu said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/faith-values\/christian-china-persecution-2020-watchlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read on at FoxNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before\u00a0President Trump\u00a0signed phase one of the\u00a0historic trade deal\u00a0with\u00a0China, a Chinese pastor described the fear and intimidation\u00a0believers\u00a0are enduring under the Communist government. &#8220;The Chinese government has now placed severe restrictions and policies on the house churches asking neighbors to spy on one another, pressuring school teachers and college professors to betray and sign a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[58,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}