They last thing they would think [a Chinese person could be] is a missionary," he said. And violence like that seen in Quetta does not appear to put them off. A young Chinese Christian couple sent to northern Iraq as missionaries told the South China Morning Post after the Pakistan killings that the incident was a reminder that they needed to be careful and sensitive in their work.
But they said they still intended to stay there indefinitely, despite the risks. Pastor Lee says Back to Jerusalem missionaries know the risks when they go abroad, and accept them. Since the killings came to light, Pakistani authorities have vowed to better regulate the inflow of Chinese nationals to Pakistan.
Militants have targeted Chinese nationals before but the attention the case received appears to have triggered significant concern among top-level officials about implications for relations with China. In Quetta, Chinese individuals could occasionally be seen on the streets before the May kidnapping but since then they have vanished. In the port of Gwadar, the centrepiece of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, frequent attacks by separatist insurgents have denied Chinese workers the freedom of unguarded movement on the streets, reporters there say.
They remain in secure compounds and move under heavy security escort. Professor Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Pakistani political and security analyst, said that Chinese and Pakistani officials would have robustly discussed the Quetta case behind closed doors. Indeed, China has continued to stress that it and Pakistan are "all-weather strategic partners".
But Beijing knows that as more and more Chinese missionaries follow the new Silk Road, other cases like this are bound to occur.
On 9 June, the day after IS announced the killing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying responded to a journalist. Why many Christians in China have turned to underground churches.
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Search the FT Search. World Show more World. US Show more US. Companies Show more Companies. Markets Show more Markets. Opinion Show more Opinion. The most prominent among these new missionaries was the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who learned to speak and write Chinese and managed to become the first Westerner invited into the Forbidden City. Today, there are an estimated 10 to 12 million Chinese Catholics and 25 to 30 million Chinese Protestants.
One of the bloodiest episodes in recent Chinese history involved a charismatic Christian convert named Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ and believed it was his mission to spread Christianity in China.
By the mids, Hong Xiuquan had gathered a large band of followers and began an armed rebellion against Qing Dynasty rulers. The Taiping Rebellion lasted 15 years and cost an estimated 20 million lives, due to the warfare and the resulting starvation. The Chinese imperial army eventually put down the rebellion with the aid of Western military advisers. Religious suppression was particularly severe during the Cultural Revolution To regulate Chinese Catholics, the government created the Catholic Patriotic Association, expelled missionaries and forbade interference from the Vatican.
In the eighteenth century China claimed to be the greatest empire on Earth. The Qing dynasty was vast. The missionaries became a symbol of foreign intrusion and were hated by many Chinese citizens, rich and poor alike. In this web site, however, we would like to illustrate that perhaps the missionaries were not all imperialistic, uncaring Westerners but families who genuinely wanted to further the word of God but were met with much resistance.
At the beginning of the missions to China it was only possible to obtain residential rights in Canton and Macao.
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