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Coronavirus hasn’t slowed the persecution of Christians in China

The Coronavirus is not the only new challenge facing Chinese Christians this winter. A new and stricter set of regulations governing churches went into effect in February. And these new regulations are likely to challenge Chinese Christians long after the … Continue reading

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How did the author of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs respond to the Coronavirus of his time?

John Foxe never liked being called a martyrologist (he regarded his work as church history), but the author of Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, popularly called Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, turned to the martyrs as exemplars when in … Continue reading

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