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  • Amen!

  • The last days are upon us.

  • Disasters are getting worse,

  • and this evil regime oppresses house churches more and more.

  • - Yes. - Right.

  • This is the darkest moment before dawn, these are portents of the Lord's coming.

  • Amen!

  • Many brothers and sisters have been arrested and sentenced in our county.

  • In such a tense situation, we're all a little afraid and weak,

  • but we believe in the Lord's promise.

  • His day has nearly come!

  • Amen!

  • We must pray in earnest, hold fast till the end,

  • bear victorious witness and await the Lord.

  • Amen!

  • We of the last days will indeed welcome the Lord's return!

  • Amen!

  • Thank the Lord!

  • The police are here!

  • Don't move! Hands on your heads!

  • Get down! Don't move!

  • Chenxi!

  • What law does our faith break?

  • Be still!

  • Don't move! Hands on your head!

  • We haven't broken any laws!

  • Tie them up!

  • Behave!

  • What have we done?

  • Get up!

  • - What about the rule of law? - Head down!

  • You got some nerve coming here to spread your gospel.

  • We'll see about that!

  • You still believe?

  • The gospel!

  • A foreign religion!

  • Pull him up.

  • Talk!

  • Where'd you get the Bible?

  • Dammit!

  • Stop hitting him! Why are you doing this?

  • Yeah! We haven't broken any laws.

  • You all behave!

  • Dammit!

  • Why are you beating him?

  • Why? Because you're believers!

  • That's what I do with believers.

  • What about the law?

  • Don't cause trouble!

  • What are you looking at?

  • That's what we do with you believers.

  • You'd better behave!

  • You want to believe?

  • How dare you believe

  • in a foreign religion!

  • A foreign religion!

  • You still believe?

  • Talk. You still believe?

  • How dare you!

  • You've really got some gall.

  • I'll sort you out today.

  • How dare you believe!

  • You're going to kill him!

  • Stop!

  • What about the law?

  • That's illegal!

  • Our faith isn't a crime. How can you do this?

  • Everybody behave!

  • Why are you doing this?

  • Where's your humanity?

  • You wanna go to prison?

  • You wanna go to prison?

  • - What law does our faith break? - Be good!

  • Get in there.

  • Move!

  • I want to go home.

  • Home? Just wait.

  • Your mom went to borrow money.

  • If she doesn't come back with 200 yuan, you'll have to stay here.

  • Lord Jesus, please have mercy on me and be with me

  • In 1988 when I was 13 years old,

  • I was detained in a raid on a fellowship gathering in the Xiaowei Village.

  • I endured one day and two nights in a dark little room, filled with fear.

  • Back then,

  • people were always getting arrested, paraded in the streets,

  • and sentenced to hard labor for gathering together and sharing the gospel.

  • I didn't understand.

  • We wanted to be good people and take the right path,

  • so why was the government persecuting us?

  • Why did the Communist Party hate us so much for our beliefs?

  • Those were the questions in my young and tender heart.

  • Excuse me, coming through.

  • Excuse me.

  • Coming through.

  • Careful there.

  • It was so crowded, I could hardly get through.

  • Still gazing out?

  • We're almost home.

  • Patience, there's still a way to go.

  • We're nearly there!

  • She can't wait.

  • This is Chenxi's first big trip. She's definitely been homesick.

  • Of course. It's been almost two months!

  • - Yeah. - Yes.

  • Time flies.

  • Do you think this counts as a triumphant return?

  • - Definitely. - Of course.

  • Yeah.

  • That's right. We've learned so much.

  • Everyone's going to be overjoyed to hear this news.

  • For sure.

  • Mom, Dad.

  • Chenhui!

  • You're back!

  • Where are Mom and Dad?

  • Getting ready for a gathering.

  • What've you got in there?

  • You'll know soon enough.

  • You certainly look pleased.

  • Mom, I'm back.

  • Mom.

  • You must be frozen!

  • No.

  • How about the Northeast?

  • It was freezing!

  • Chenxi, it's great to see you.

  • Hi Xinyue!

  • You've learned a lot from all those sermons, right?

  • I've brought some good news back for everyone.

  • - Good news? - What is it?

  • Come on, over here!

  • - C'mon, c'mon. - What did you bring us?

  • Oh, that girl.

  • You're so excited, what is it?

  • Yeah, tell us.

  • What?

  • Look!

  • The Words of the Holy Spirit!

  • The Holy Spirit has spoken!

  • - The Holy Spirit has spoken! - Here, let's read it.

  • - Everyone have a seat. - Sit down.

  • In 1991, we heard the Holy Spirit's words in a house church.

  • Everyone was overjoyed and couldn't wait to share the news.

  • A chapter of the Holy Spirit's words came out every day or so in a steady stream.

  • God's words revealed many truths about faith in Him and mysteries of the Bible,

  • and gave us the path for practicing the truth and entering into life.

  • Reading God's words every day felt so nourishing.

  • We were all constantly immersed in a state of joy.

  • However, six months later, the Communist Party's persecution found us once more.

  • My parents and my brother were all arrested.

  • Where'd these books come from?

  • Where were they printed?

  • No one's talking, huh?

  • What about you?

  • I don't know.

  • You organize the gatherings, right?

  • Tell me where those books came from.

  • I don't know.

  • Dad!

  • - Don't hit him! - Why are you hitting my dad?

  • Stop, he's not well. Stop hitting him!

  • Dad!

  • Stop it!

  • Don't move!

  • He's not well, stop it! Stop hitting him!

  • Dad! …

  • Stop hitting him!

  • Don't hit him?

  • Alright then.

  • A 600 yuan fine?

  • The police took our tape recorder as collateral.

  • They told me to go borrow money for the fine.

  • What lowlifes!

  • Where can we borrow that much money?

  • You can leave now.

  • We've got to keep arresting and fining those believers.

  • We still need to look into the issue of these books.

  • Yes, sir.

  • Dad.

  • Dad, have some egg soup.

  • Chenxi,

  • your things are packed.

  • The police have been investigating the source of the books.

  • Stay at Xinyue's place for the next few days,

  • then come back when this has blown over.

  • Be careful on your way there.

  • What on earth?

  • What are you doing?

  • - Mom! Mom! - Behave!

  • - What is this? - Don't move!

  • Stay still!

  • Where'd you get these books? Where were they printed?

  • Tell us!

  • Captain.

  • Sit!

  • Li Chenxi,

  • you've got some guts for someone so young.

  • You had some nerve sending out these Christian books.

  • Did you know that our government has been cracking down hard on house churches?

  • You people dare print religious materials in secret and distribute them?

  • Do you know what kind of crime that is?

  • You're disseminating cult literature and cult propaganda,

  • trying to overthrow our national government.

  • You could get 10 to 20 years for that alone.

  • Tell us what you know.

  • Where did these books come from?

  • Confess!

  • If you don't confess, you'll be in even more trouble.

  • My faith is not a crime.

  • I have nothing to confess.

  • You're a hard nut to crack.

  • You really drank the Kool-Aid, hm?

  • Talk!

  • You're just 17.

  • We'd hate to see you given hard labor.

  • As long as you tell us everything you know,

  • we'll send you right back home.

  • How about it?

  • As believers, we try to be good people on the right path and we read God's words.

  • Why won't the government just let us be?

  • Why do you persecute us?

  • You silly little girl.

  • What do you know?

  • In China, anything the Communist Party opposes is illegal.

  • Got it?

  • You won't believe in the Party, but insist on believing in your God,

  • spreading your gospel everywhere.

  • More people believe in God and fewer follow the Party.

  • We have to stop you, wipe you all out.

  • That's the Party's policy, its law.

  • Clear on that?

  • Talk! Fess up!

  • You'll be sorry if you don't!

  • You, you, come with me.

  • Move it!

  • Come on!

  • Get in there! Hurry up!

  • Dad!

  • Chenxi! Chenxi!

  • Get back here.

  • If you still don't want to talk, we'll get your dad to talk.

  • Dad!

  • You stay here.

  • This has nothing to do with my dad. Why are you beating him?

  • Nothing to do with him?

  • Tell us!

  • Where'd your daughter get those books?

  • Where were they printed?

  • Dammit!

  • Dad!

  • Stop hitting him!

  • Dad! …

  • Can you take it?

  • You shit!

  • Step aside.

  • Dad! …

  • Tell us!

  • Dad!

  • Will you talk or what?

  • Talk!

  • Tell us!

  • Here, stop crying.

  • Don't cry.

  • The Communist Party is awful.

  • This little girl just believes in God.

  • She's done nothing wrong

  • but they beat her dad right in front of her.

  • How could they do that?

  • It's so cruel!

  • It's okay, don't cry.

  • It's okay. It's okay.

  • We know everything already.

  • Look, someone already confessed and got to go home.

  • Sort of pointless to be digging your heels in, isn't it?

  • Once you've confessed everything,

  • I'll call for a car to take you and your dad home.

  • I give you my word.

  • Whether your dad gets out or not

  • depends on your cooperation.

  • I'll ask you questions,

  • and you just nod or shake your head.

  • Did you go to Wangjia Village for a gathering?

  • Did you go to the Northeast to listen to sermons?

  • Who was preaching?

  • Where were those books printed?

  • I didn't know them.

  • I don't know where the books were printed.

  • LookMom! Mom, that's my classmate.

  • Don't be silly!

  • Isn't that Li Zhongdao's daughter?

  • Such a good kid! Why's she there?

  • The Party's arresting all the believers, even little girls.

  • She's just a teenager. What does she know?

  • What could she really believe in at her age?

  • Doesn't she have anything better to do than that?

  • That's what she gets!

  • God, please bind Satan, seal its mouth.

  • Suspect Wu Deshun is under criminal detention according to the law.

  • Li Chenxi

  • is under criminal detention for breaking the law

  • by illegally distributing cult literature and seriously disrupting social order.

  • Wang Youcai

  • has been involved in repeated thefts of personal property

  • leading to serious repercussions

  • Write a letter of repentance.

  • What's your problem? Write!

  • Won't do it?

  • You'll get at least three years of hard labor,

  • and three more if you still believe after that.

  • And three more if you keep believing!

  • You are going to rot in prison!

  • Write, or you'll see what's coming to you.

  • Li Chenxi!

  • Yes?

  • Come on!

  • Bedding from your parents.

  • Hey, your family sent you bedding?

  • What's wrong?

  • It's so hot, but they sent me a big duvet.

  • I must be going to a labor camp.

  • Hey, don't overthink it.

  • See if there's something in here.

  • Go on, what are you looking at?

  • Come here.

  • Hey, see what it is.

  • Here. There's more.

  • I believe in the true God and I will never betray Him.

  • You talk pretty tough for a little girl.

  • Let's see how you like the labor camp!

  • Chenxi.

  • Chenhui, where's Dad?

  • He already got out.

  • Our aunt used her connections and paid to get you and Dad out.

  • Otherwise, you'd have to do hard labor.

  • Let's go home.

  • Being arrested and persecuted

  • showed me how much the satanic regime hates believers

  • and the truth in God's words.

  • Only God has the truest love for people

  • and God is our only rock in hard times.

  • Starting in 1995 I went through Henan, Hebei, and Shanxi

  • sharing the kingdom gospel alongside brothers and sisters.

  • Thanks to the Lord! This is the Holy Spirit's voice.

  • Many who read Almighty God's words

  • recognized this is God's voice and He is the Lord Jesus returned.

  • One by one, they accepted Almighty God's work of the last days.

  • We can only be saved and enter the kingdom of heaven

  • by accepting Almighty God's work for the last days.

  • - Thanks be to God! - That's wonderful!

  • We should accept God's work of the last days.

  • Get out of here!

  • Go! Get out of here!

  • We will not accept your gospel. We believe in the Lord, in the Bible!

  • The Communist Party started a nationwide operation in 1996

  • to counter so-called illegal activities.

  • Large scale arrests were carried out against house churches,

  • especially The Church of Almighty God.

  • Where's your daughter?

  • That year the police went to my home to arrest me,

  • so I didn't dare go back home again.

  • I felt timid and afraid in the face of the Communist Party's oppression and arrests.

  • We prayed and leaned on God

  • and kept sharing the gospel and doing our duty, spurred on by God's words.

  • Is Li Zhongdao home?

  • Li Zhongdao?

  • Hello Li Zhongdao.

  • Go to the county hospital.

  • For what?

  • To identify a body.

  • A body?

  • What body?

  • - What happened? - What body?

  • What's going on?

  • Your daughter is dead.

  • Mom! …

  • In 1998, I heard my mom's mental health had seriously declined.

  • She was never the same again.

  • I really wanted to go home and see her, but I couldn't for fear of being arrested.

  • I found myself near to home in 2004, so I risked a visit.

  • Dad, Mom.

  • Chenxi!

  • Mom, it's me.

  • Chenxi.

  • Mom.

  • You're back!

  • Yes!

  • Chenxi's back!

  • Dad.

  • Chenxi's back. Chenxi's back.

  • It's wonderful that you're here.

  • No one saw you come?

  • No.

  • Dad, how's your health?

  • Just fine, don't worry.

  • Chenxi.

  • Chenhui.

  • You're back.

  • I thought

  • Mom, what are you looking for?

  • Sweetheart, have some candy.

  • Mom, I'll get it myself.

  • Come on, have some! Have some candy!

  • - Mom. - Have some!

  • - Go ahead! - Mom.

  • I'll go fry an egg, it's your favorite.

  • Mom, Mom, there's no need.

  • It's late, we shouldn't wake the neighbors.

  • I'll be quiet, I'll be quiet.

  • - Mom, there's no need. - I'll be quiet.

  • Mom …

  • It's okay, just let her go.

  • Chenxi loves fried eggs.

  • My darling loves fried eggs.

  • Dad, what's wrong with Mom?

  • The Communist Party's kept a close eye on us ever since you left.

  • Police and village cadres come often, demanding to know where you are.

  • Your mom was afraid you'd be arrested again

  • and that they would take me

  • and I'd be beaten to death like Brother Zhong.

  • She was afraid all the time

  • and would keep the main gate locked,

  • terrified that the police would burst through.

  • Then an officer came and told us to go identify a body at the morgue.

  • He said you'd died.

  • It was such a blow for her.

  • She ended up like this.

  • Our family's faith has been such a wonderful thing.

  • I never imagined

  • Alright. Let's talk about something else.

  • Seeing you doing well is enough for me.

  • Chenxi, will you stay for a few days?

  • The police were just here asking about you.

  • I came by to see everyone. I'll go before daybreak.

  • Dad, I bought you and Mom some clothing.

  • There's no need for that.

  • Try it, see if it fits.

  • Sweetie, don't go.

  • Alright, I won't.

  • Chenxi isn't leaving.

  • Dad, I have to go.

  • We're so busy with the church's gospel work

  • and so many people don't know God has returned.

  • I can't put my duty to spread the gospel aside for our personal struggles.

  • That would be disloyal to God.

  • Be careful out there.

  • Pray and lean on God, be sure to be safe.

  • The police are still looking for you.

  • You should go.

  • Don't worry, I'll take care of things at home.

  • God,

  • You know my weaknesses.

  • Please enlighten and guide me,

  • give me faith and strength so I can stand firm.

  • Thank God!

  • God's words are always here to sustain and help us.

  • His words brighten our hearts and give us strength.

  • Yes.

  • - God's words are wonderful. - They are.

  • I assumed the name Fang Jie in 2009,

  • and I traveled through Sichuan, Anhui, and Shandong doing work for the church.

  • That year the Communist Party launched

  • another national operation against The Church of Almighty God.

  • The cops are coming!

  • Don't move! Hurry up!

  • Stop!

  • What are you doing?

  • Don't move!

  • Freeze! …

  • News of arrests of our brothers and sisters kept coming from all over.

  • Brother Xiao Li and Sister Youling, high-level leaders were also caught.

  • I'd never seen so many arrests in all my years as a believer.

  • A dark, ominous feeling pressed down on all of China.

  • It seemed no place was safe.

  • The atmosphere of terror was suffocating.

  • That August they started large-scale arrests in Linyi, Shandong

  • where I was spreading the gospel.

  • The Communist Party would dispatch large forces

  • to seal off streets and apprehend Christians.

  • Get up!

  • Don't move!

  • Everybody down!

  • Why are you arresting us?

  • You have to go! Sister Qi and the others were arrested!

  • Hurry up!

  • Hurry up or you won't get out of the city!

  • It all happened so fast, I didn't know where to go.

  • There were arrests in Shandong and Jiangsu.

  • Henan was a focus for Communist Party sweeps.

  • I heard things were tense in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan as well.

  • I thought of the only place I could go.

  • Routine checkshow your ID.

  • You.

  • You, ID.

  • You, ID.

  • ID.

  • God, please guide me.

  • Where should I go now?

  • Fang Jie?

  • Sister Li!

  • Come in.

  • Brother Yang, Sister Feng,

  • this is Sister Fang.

  • She just fled to Fuyang and needs to stay here for a few days.

  • Alright, have a seat.

  • Here, sit down.

  • Just relax and stay here for a bit.

  • Learning a song?

  • Sister Feng, could you take this to Sister Liu today

  • and ask her to send it to Xuzhou ASAP?

  • Sure.

  • Have you learned it yet?

  • Just about. Let's sing it together.

  • Alright.

  • A few days ago, I heard from brothers and sisters in Henan

  • that Brother Xiao Li was given 15 years.

  • 15 years?

  • And four others were given 10 years or more.

  • What law does our faith break? Such harsh sentences!

  • What about Sister Youling? What did she get?

  • You haven't heard?

  • Sister Youling

  • was beaten to death by the police.

  • Beaten to death?

  • Five days after her arrest, she was tortured to death.

  • Her husband saw bruises all over her body, but the police wouldn't admit it.

  • They insisted she'd died suddenly of a heart attack

  • and that those bruises had appeared after she died.

  • Why hasn't Mom gotten back from sending that letter?

  • - Mom. - Sister Feng.

  • Someone was following me just now.

  • Did you lose them?

  • I did.

  • It's not safe here anymore.

  • We have to move right away.

  • We can hide at my sister's old place for now.

  • - Alright. - Sure.

  • Hurry, let's get our stuff together.

  • Take a break.

  • We've moved so many times this year.

  • There's a lesson in it.

  • Followers of God have to endure suffering.

  • I'm constantly on edge.

  • My heart skips a beat whenever I hear something outside,

  • afraid the police are going to burst in.

  • The police are chasing me in my dreams.

  • The CCP started another round of mass arrests

  • against The Church of Almighty God in 2012.

  • Days before it launched, I went to Xuzhou to spread the gospel.

  • I was just as cautious as always

  • but I didn't know that danger was already creeping towards me.

  • Daddy!

  • Hello?

  • Don't move!

  • - Come on! - Get in!

  • What are you doing?

  • Squat there!

  • I'll ask you again.

  • Are you Fang Jie?

  • Are you a church leader?

  • You think we don't know anything?

  • We confiscated all those books you printed.

  • You are the one in charge!

  • Get up!

  • Up! Now!

  • Tell us. Where's the church's money?

  • Who's your leader?

  • Will you talk?

  • Will you talk?

  • Will you talk?

  • Will you talk? Will you talk?

  • Will you talk?

  • Will you talk? …

  • Then tell me first, what's your name?

  • What's your full name?

  • Why would you ask me that?

  • You're interrogating me.

  • Don't I have the right to know your name?

  • Dammit.

  • Get up.

  • Shit, she's tough.

  • Up!

  • Squat!

  • A number of officers tried, but they got nothing out of me.

  • They transferred me to Nanjing for more questioning.

  • Are you Fang Jie?

  • Are you a church leader?

  • Tell me!

  • You think you can hold out on us and not get a prison sentence?

  • Don't press your luck!

  • The Central Committee has ordered us

  • to make a clean sweep

  • and totally eliminate The Church of Almighty God.

  • Being so loyal to your faith

  • will not only get you prison,

  • it could cost you your life.

  • Is it worth it?

  • Think about it.

  • In China, following the Party is the only way to survive.

  • Believing in God is simply not an option.

  • After my arrest, the police wouldn't let me close my eyes or eat a bite of food.

  • You feeling sleepy?

  • No sleeping!

  • I was totally exhausted after three days and nights of torture.

  • It felt like there was a heavy weight pressing on my chest

  • and I was struggling to breathe.

  • I'll give you 30 more minutes.

  • If you don't talk,

  • the next round won't be this nice.

  • It's 2:30 now.

  • You have until 3:00.

  • It's been 10 minutes.

  • Have you thought it over?

  • She talked?

  • 20 minutes.

  • 5 minutes left.

  • You'd better think about this.

  • Don't say I didn't warn you.

  • God, I don't know what else they're going to do to me.

  • Please protect me so I can get through this and stand witness.

  • How about it? Have you made up your mind?

  • I haven't done anything illegal.

  • I have nothing to confess.

  • Dammit, you're a piece of work!

  • Do you have a family history of disease?

  • She has a serious heart condition. We can't take her.

  • It's fine. She'll just be here a week, she won't die.

  • Get in there.

  • Strip for a search.

  • Take your clothes off!

  • Hurry up!

  • Off!

  • C'mon!

  • Take it all off.

  • Do it!

  • All of it!

  • Did you hear? Do I have to help you?

  • Now!

  • Arms out.

  • Legs apart.

  • Turn around.

  • Turn around!

  • Legs apart.

  • Arms out.

  • - Out! - Turn!

  • Put them out. Turn around.

  • Legs apart.

  • Higher!

  • Get in there.

  • Go on!

  • Take "good care" of her.

  • What did you do?

  • How'd you end up here?

  • Believing in God.

  • Believing in God?

  • Where is He, anyway?

  • Yeah!

  • Where is He?

  • Take your clothes off.

  • Why?

  • For a search.

  • They just did that.

  • We need to do another one.

  • That's the rule.

  • Take it off.

  • Come on!

  • What's the hold-up?

  • Hurry up!

  • Come on, stop dragging your feet.

  • Would you hurry it up?

  • Take everything off!

  • You got yourself heredon't pretend to be so innocent.

  • Come on!

  • Spread your legs and do a wide squat. Down!

  • I'm on my period.

  • Don't waste your breath. Do it!

  • Squat!

  • Now!

  • Get up!

  • Squat!

  • Up!

  • Squat!

  • Up!

  • Squat!

  • Up!

  • Squat!

  • The Communist Party is truly evil.

  • They're lower than beasts and deserve damnation.

  • Could you give me a little toilet paper?

  • I told you, no one can help her! You hear me?

  • Get up.

  • It's your shift, come on!

  • Starting my first day in the detention house,

  • I had to take a two and a half-hour shift every night

  • of walking back and forth without stopping, even when my heart acted up.

  • Hey, away from the wall. Are you asking for trouble?

  • Otherwise, I'd be punished with a five-hour shift the next day.

  • I learned what it's like to have every day feel like a whole year.

  • Sun Jing, hurry it up!

  • You're taking ages to brush your teeth.

  • Stop dragging your feet.

  • Food's coming soon, hurry up there!

  • Li Chenxi, come here.

  • Go clean the bathroom.

  • Now!

  • What kind of scrubbing is that?

  • Get your arm in there!

  • Get it clean.

  • Down.

  • Farther down.

  • You can eat.

  • Toilet, please.

  • Me too, please.

  • Anyone else need to go?

  • I do.

  • Go ahead.

  • Stop!

  • How are you supposed to get down?

  • Time's up. Go next time.

  • Get back up there!

  • What are you looking at?

  • Don't you get it?

  • She said go back!

  • Stop!

  • Your slippers.

  • Straighten them.

  • There wasn't any freedom or dignity there.

  • There were rules for sitting, walking, getting off the platform.

  • Bathroom, please.

  • Hold it.

  • Even using the bathroom, the most basic of human rights was strictly limited.

  • Sun Jing peed her pants!

  • Ewwthat's embarrassing!

  • Sun Jing, what the hell is wrong with you?

  • Clean it up, fast!

  • Who told you to piss on the platform?

  • Clean it up!

  • Are you stupid?

  • There's something wrong with you.

  • Stop your crying, move it!

  • Some prisoners ended up losing their minds,

  • unable to withstand the long-term torture and abuse.

  • Are you really crazy, or just pretending?

  • You're faking it, right?

  • Is it real?

  • Here you go.

  • Eat.

  • Have some more.

  • The Communist Party prison was hell on earth.

  • Li Chenxi.

  • She's using the bathroom.

  • You're called for questioning!

  • Li Chenxi, we know everything about your family.

  • Are you Fang Jie?

  • You won't say anything because you're afraid of betraying your God,

  • of being a Judas, right?

  • We've already told your church friends that you told us everything.

  • They won't want you back when you get out.

  • You're screwed either way.

  • Yours is a special case.

  • We can keep you locked up indefinitely,

  • however long we want.

  • Go think it over.

  • My first three months in the detention house, the police questioned me regularly,

  • sometimes from morning until night.

  • Speak now!

  • I was under incredible stress from non-stop threats and exploitation.

  • Sometimes I'd feel panic and tightness in my chest and a pain in my heart.

  • On top of questioning,

  • they made me watch videos glorifying the Communist Party every day

  • and talk about what I'd learned.

  • That was also a kind of torture for me.

  • Share what you've gained from watching the 18th National Congress.

  • I have nothing to say.

  • You have to!

  • I just hope that the Communist Party respects the law,

  • allows freedom of belief, and stops persecuting Christians.

  • You really have a mouth on you.

  • Make a note of that!

  • Next.

  • Once winter started, each day was colder than the last

  • and my prison days became even harder.

  • The water's too cold.

  • Quit lollygagging, hurry up!

  • It's freezing!

  • The Party is so damn evil.

  • Washing with freezing water in the dead of winter will kill us!

  • They're experts at torturing people.

  • The Party's been awful from the very start.

  • All its words are sweet, all its deeds are evil.

  • You, hurry up!

  • Get out of here when you're done, don't waste time!

  • Get up, get up, get up.

  • Hurry up.

  • It's so damp.

  • Look, I can wring water out of it.

  • This place isn't fit for humans.

  • My health continued to deteriorate in such a terrible environment.

  • My rheumatism and heart condition grew worse.

  • I was weak and in pain and always wanted to lie down.

  • But when it did come time to sleep, I was afraid

  • because that was like being punished, too.

  • It was so crowded I couldn't even move.

  • Get up, it's your shift. Hurry up.

  • The cold, the sleep deprivation, and the pain

  • made every step torture.

  • It was as if time stopped.

  • Every single second was a struggle.

  • I constantly prayed, sang hymns in praise of God, and asked Him to be with me.

  • What's wrong? Are you okay?

  • Hey, wake up.

  • Li Chenxi's heart is acting up again.

  • Li Chenxi's heart is acting up again.

  • Should I report it to the guard?

  • The guard won't do anything. Just do your shift.

  • Am I going to die here?

  • God, my life is in Your hands.

  • Even if I don't make it, I still give thanks to You and praise You.

  • If I am called to give my life standing witness for You,

  • I'll have no regrets.

  • It's all been worth it.

  • Li Chenxi, I've never seen anyone as stubborn as you.

  • It's been more than three months and you haven't given us anything.

  • You've practically got me on my knees.

  • You could, you could even make something up

  • so we can tell our superiors we got something!

  • You …

  • I don't understand.

  • The government has cracked down so hard on believers in Almighty God.

  • Why are you people so driven?

  • You give up everything, determined to believe in God.

  • You go on the run, you can't go home, no one pays you for this.

  • What's it all for?

  • You're atheists who don't believe there's a God.

  • What would you know about faith?

  • You just care about money, fame, and status,

  • but do those things really bring you peace?

  • I think people with those things suffer more.

  • You just obsess over promotions, riches, fixing others.

  • There's no telling when you'll be imprisoned,

  • lose your life, or lose your standing.

  • We all get what we deserve in the end.

  • This is a dark and evil world.

  • Disasters are growing fiercer.

  • Anyone without faith, without repentance,

  • will be punished, swept away in the disasters and will die.

  • Almighty God expresses the truth to cleanse mankind,

  • to save us from the disasters so we can enter His kingdom.

  • This is a wonderful thing!

  • We share the gospel and give testimony

  • so more people will accept God's work of the last days,

  • gain His salvation, and be part of the kingdom of heaven.

  • What's wrong with that?

  • Why are you always persecuting us?

  • Aren't you supposed to serve the people?

  • Why can't you leave people of faith be?

  • Li Chenxi,

  • that's enough out of you!

  • You dare preach to us.

  • You're an intractable "godized element"!

  • Li Chenxi,

  • your parents are so old,

  • and they took care of you all those years.

  • You're not at home taking care of them, instead you are running around for your gospel.

  • Aren't you letting them down?

  • Have you realized that you might never see them again

  • if you're sentenced to 10 or 20 years?

  • You really want them to grow old alone?

  • Isn't that selfish of you?

  • Just tell us about your church and we'll let you go home.

  • We'll help you find a job so you can take good care of your parents.

  • What do you think?

  • When I was 13,

  • I was arrested for attending a gathering.

  • The police locked me in a small, dark room for two nights and a day.

  • I don't know how I would have gotten through that without the Lord by my side.

  • When I was 17,

  • my whole family was arrested for believing in God.

  • The police interrogated and tortured them nonstop

  • and my dad was nearly blinded in one eye from being beaten.

  • They even beat him right in front of me,

  • trying to get me to tell them about the church.

  • I was paraded through the streets, mocked and humiliated by countless people.

  • If it weren't for the strength God gave me,

  • how could I have withstood

  • such humiliation and pain as a young teenage girl?

  • My dad's health deteriorated after being beaten like that

  • and things got harder at home.

  • We struggled to make a living.

  • The police kept monitoring and trying to arrest me,

  • forcing me to go on the run.

  • My whole family lived in fear

  • and our lives were destroyed.

  • When I was 23,

  • the local police lied, telling my family that I'd died

  • and asked them to identify my body at the morgue.

  • My mom couldn't take it and had a mental breakdown.

  • Since then,

  • she's been a completely different person.

  • Confused one moment, alert the next.

  • All household responsibilities have fallen on my brother's shoulders.

  • As their daughter,

  • all that I'm able to do for them aside from pray is worry.

  • I can't do a thing for them.

  • The local government and police never took their eyes off our house,

  • even on the holidays.

  • All just to get to me.

  • Home?

  • I lost that ages ago.

  • I haven't been able to go back for years.

  • If it weren't for God giving me guidance, protection, and faith,

  • if it weren't for the brothers and sisters of God's house,

  • I would have been …

  • For me, going home

  • is an impossibility.

  • I long to see my parents in my dreams.

  • That would be enough for me.

  • We didn't do any of these things.

  • That was all your local police.

  • We had nothing to do with that.

  • We really feel for what you've suffered,

  • but this is the Party policy.

  • Our hands are tied.

  • Do you want redress, like for the Cultural Revolution?

  • I know that believers in Almighty God are all good, kind people

  • and we don't have anything against you personally.

  • If you have to hate something, hate the Party.

  • Over four months passed.

  • Since the police didn't find any conclusive evidence

  • and I had a serious heart condition,

  • they released me on bail pending trial

  • and had the local public security and judicial authorities in my hometown monitor me.

  • Li Chenxi, call me the moment you arrive.

  • Did you hear me?

  • Your case is still open.

  • As soon as we confirm your role and actions in the church,

  • we'll bring you back in.

  • Run to the ends of the earth and we'll still get you.

  • Get going.

  • Come on.

  • The police are bad! The police are bad!

  • They're not good people!

  • Get out! Get out!

  • The police are bad! Get out!

  • The police are bad!

  • Get out! Get out!

  • Li Chenxi,

  • don't think it's all over because you're on bail.

  • You're a primary target for monitoring in our city.

  • You need to report to the police station on time every month.

  • You're absolutely forbidden to practice your faith, attend gatherings, or share the gospel.

  • You can't have contact with believers or leave the area.

  • I don't have any freedom at all?

  • You want freedom?

  • We have to keep a close eye on you "godized elements."

  • I'll be coming by to check up on you.

  • If we find out that you're practicing your faith or sharing the gospel on the sly,

  • you'll get at least eight years.

  • Got it?

  • Take her photo.

  • What's that for?

  • To locate her wherever she goes.

  • Help the government and keep an eye on her.

  • Okay.

  • Report her right away if she keeps on with that God stuff!

  • Alright.

  • Watch her.

  • Going out? Where are you headed?

  • Going out again?

  • Almighty God, You know what I'm facing.

  • I can't go to gatherings or share the gospel.

  • God, please show me a way out.

  • Some Christians in Baiyun District are interested in the true way

  • and want to read Almighty God's words.

  • We should send a couple of people over.

  • I heard some brothers and sisters went to share the gospel a few days ago

  • but the pastor reported them to the police.

  • We have to tread carefully and send people who know what they're doing.

  • You're right.

  • Brother Wang and Sister Zhou have been arrested! Hurry! …

  • When I was sharing the gospel in Guangdong in 2013,

  • there was another round of Communist Party arrest operations.

  • The evening of September 25 alone, nearly 200 church members were taken.

  • In 2014,

  • the Communist Party launched a national campaign against The Church of Almighty God,

  • the "Hundred Days Battle."

  • Huge numbers of public security officers, armed police, and regular officers

  • were dispatched to arrest Christians.

  • So many brothers and sisters were taken.

  • Some were sentenced, some were beaten to death,

  • and some had their organs removed.

  • Fess up!

  • Don't stop!

  • Confess!

  • In China, a sense of fear permeates everything.

  • The shadow of the Communist Party's reign of terror over Christians

  • looms over all of China.

  • Let's go.

  • Oh God, please protect me

  • so I can be strong and brave through this nightmare

  • and follow You until the very end.

Amen!

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