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HONG KONG- Krystal Meyers, an upcoming Christian rock artist from the United States, held her first live concert in Hong Kong. Favoring to sing in the punk rock style, Meyer often advocates anti-conformity to secular culture.

“Brokeback’s” director was blasted for his newest-released film “Lust, Caution,” which critics say opens the door for more explicit pornographic material to enter mainstream film culture in the United States.

Influential Chinese American evangelicals vowed to continue preserving the definition of traditional marriage in California-state legislature, on Saturday, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised this past week to veto a bill that would allow gay marriage.

Chinese house church pastor, Cai Zhuohua, was released on Monday after serving a three-year prison term for printing Bibles and religious materials.

A renowned pioneer in the field of world missions urged Christian students to start their school year with the goal of fulfilling the university’s ultimate purpose, which is to unite knowledge.

Top Chinese Christian leaders agree that South Korean churches must cooperate with local Chinese churches to ensure success for missions in China.

Homosexuals are at mercy of “beasts” living within them, suggests a controversial new film by a respected Taiwanese filmmaker.

An alcoholic-rehab organization reported success with its help-groups set up in churches throughout Mongolia, where a recent UN report estimated that 13 per cent of its total population is addicted to alcohol.

Beijing has come under fire, Monday, after a BBC report revealed that China has too many senior-citizens, but too little young people as a result of its current one-child policy.

Malaysia’s first openly gay pastor said he will go ahead with plans to open a church allowing homosexual, bisexual and transsexual members despite government vows to block the plan.

China's state media reported, Monday, that unsafe sex is now the primary cause of new HIV infections that is sweeping China, suggesting AIDs is spreading from high-risk groups to the general public.

Chinese and Korean Christians will develop new missions strategy for China, during the fall, in an unprecedented gathering expected to attract over a thousand and bringing together some of the brightest minds in missions from both nations.

John watched anxiously as his students hungrily devoured meager portions of rice gruel and traditional, plain wheat-buns called 'mantou' during mealtime at the music school in Beijing.

Beijing once again came under pressure to improve civil liberties and press freedoms – as it promised to fulfill in its winning bid to host next year’s Summer Olympics.

A house church in China united in prayer with Christians from the U.S. president’s hometown, a year before the 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing.

Chinese security forces raided a house church in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in northwest China, detaining individuals and prosecuting their families, according to a persecution watchdog.

State media on Friday reported that 78 people are dead and 18 missing in China’s central province of Henan.

China’s state-governed Catholic Church approved the nomination of Li Shan to be the new bishop of Beijing, as announced in an Episcopal conference held Wednesday.

China is failing to make progress ahead of the Beijing Olympics as government security forces intensify crackdowns on independent media and individual activists, says a human rights advocacy group.

Eleven Catholic priests from the underground church remain imprisoned in regions throughout China, Catholic-affiliated news media reported on Thursday.

China state media reported that courts in northern China sentenced an additional 31 people to prison terms of up to five years for crimes relating to the use of slave labor in brick kilns.

The senior spokesman of China’s state-controlled Catholic church claimed that he did not formally invite Pope Benedict XVI to make a landmark visit to China, after the Pope refused to confirm speculation of an imminent breakthrough in relations between Beijing and the Vatican will.

The official Catholic Church in China went ahead with celebrating 50 years, Wednesday, despite controversy surrrounding its recent selection of a candidate Bishop for Beijing without papal-authority.

Police raided a children vacation Bible school in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, July 11, 2007, arresting leaders and teachers, injuring several people and dismissing 150 traumatized children.

The head of a China-based social welfare organization urged Chinese government officials to act more as “servants” of society than that of rulers.