Chinese Protestant Leaders Endorse Student Protests, Bishop Tells Council
Chinese Protestant leaders endorse the student demonstrations and hunger strikes that have rocked the country in the past month, according to Bishop K. H. Ting, president of the China Christian Council and chairman of the Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee.
In a message that was received this week in New York at the China Program office of the National Council of Churches, Ting said: “We wholeheartedly affirm the student demonstrations in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities in recent days. The hunger strikes are a patriotic activity. Their demands arise from a feeling of patriotism.â€
Ting, who is also a vice president of the National People’s Congress, said he is “glad that Christians are making their presence felt in these demonstrations,†including students from the Nanjing Theological Seminary, of which he is principal.
The seminarians not only joined the demonstrations “but also try to serve their fellow students by sending them drinking water and bread,†the bishop said.
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