ICC Note:
The wife of an imprisoned Christian human rights lawyer says that he asked her to pray for the spread of the gospel, and not for his release. His wife said, “He passed a message through his lawyer to tell me to pray … pray for five to six people, and ask those to pray for another five to six people to spread the gospel.” He is serving five years for “subversion of state power.” China has implemented a massive crackdown on human rights lawyers and Christians in the last year.
1/18/2017 China (The Gospel Herald) – A human rights lawyer in China who has been detained since 2014 sent a message to his wife to gather people to pray not for his release but for the gospel to spread.
The lawyer’s wife, Mrs. Wong, shared her and her husband’s experiences in an interview with Voice of the Martyrs radio. VOM is an international, interdenominational organization that helps persecuted Christians globally.
Mrs. Wong said that as a human rights lawyer, her husband represented Christian clients who were being prosecuted by the state. Although he never stirred up the people against the government but merely performed his job to defend his clients’ rights and freedom of speech, the government considered him a threat, she said.
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