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Onward, Christian Soldiers; Chinese missionaries are winning souls across the Middle Kingdom--and plan to spread even farther.(Cover Story)

Newsweek International

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Byline: Sarah Schafer, With Craig Simons in Hong Kong

When they praise the Lord, they close the windows. In a packed classroom in China's southern Henan province, 35 young Christians stand behind their desks singing the Hallelujah prayer. These students have pledged the next three years of their lives to this illegal seminary, one of the many run across China by members of the Chinese Protestant underground. Tucked away in a two-story apartment donated by a fellow believer, these future preachers study, eat and sleep together, girls in one room, boys in another. If the students want to leave the school, they must do so one or two at a time, at night, so as not to ...

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