Christmas in Beijing

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | December 28, 2010

Most of the Christian world today commemorates the slaughter of baby boys at the hands of Roman soldiers some 2010 years ago. Herod’s command–kill all male children under the age of two–is often compared to Beijing’s population edict which has resulted in the killing of some 60 million newborn and unborn baby girls in just 30 years.

And so it is significant that the Vatican, the world’s loudest critic of abortion, has been cautiously pursuing diplomatic relations with Beijing. And it is just as significant that China’s communist rulers recently reversed that trend with a series of provacative clerical appointments.

On Christmas, Benedict XVI fired back. Gordon Chang argues that China is on the losing end of the struggle over religous freedom in today’s Forbes.com. Chinese communist leaders cannot quash the spread of Christian “house churches” whose 107 million faithful outnumber “official” church attendees more than 4 to 1.

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