‘Leaders are scared’ of How Fast the Church in China Is Growing By Jessica Lea for Church Leaders
The number of Christians in China is growing so quickly that it could reach 300 million by 2030, says Dr. Ron Boyd-MacMillan. He believes the rapid growth of the church in China is why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is targeting believers so aggressively.
“We think the evidence as to why the Chinese Church is so targeted, is that the leaders are scared of the size of the Church, and the growth of the Church,” said Boyd-MacMillan, who oversees global strategy and research for Open Doors International. Speaking to the Daily Express on Jan. 24, Boyd-MacMillan said, “And if it grows, at the rate that it has done, since 1980 and that’s about between seven and eight percent a year, then you’re looking at a group of people that will be 300 million strong, nearly by 2030. And, you know, the Chinese leadership, they really do long-term planning, I mean, their economic plan goes to 2049, so this bothers them.”
Christians in China are currently estimated to number 97 million; the current population of China is around 1.4 billion.
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Christians in China Face Serious Persecution
Open Doors is a non-profit that supports persecuted Christians in over 60 countries throughout the world. Every year, the organization releases its World Watch List, which ranks the top 50 countries where Christians face the most severe persecution. In a press conference about the 2020 World Watch List, Open Doors president and CEO David Curry said that China is “the greatest threat, in my opinion, to human rights today.” Prior to the pandemic, Chinese authorities were tracking the biometric data of church attendees, as well as developing a way of giving everyone in the country a social score based on how well they comply with the government.
