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  • In the mid-nineteenth century,

  • devotee of Satan, Karl Marx, wrote in The Communist Manifesto,

  • "A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of communism."

  • The Communist Party subsequently emerged in Europe,

  • bringing with it great catastrophe for the people of the continent.

  • Over half a century,

  • this spectre evolved into the Chinese Communist Party,

  • which seized control of the entirety of mainland China.

  • It began to wreak havoc, inflicting terrible adversity upon the people.

  • The CCP was a horde of demons

  • that hated the truth and was rabid in its hostility to God.

  • The evil acts it committed were many.

  • It not only abused and slaughtered hundreds of millions of Chinese people,

  • but also did all it could to deceive people into denying God and the truth.

  • It tried to control the whole of mankind,

  • so that all people would worship the Communist Party as God,

  • and treat it as God.

  • As a result, the sins of people's denial of God,

  • opposition to God, and betrayal of God reached their peak.

  • Since it came to power in mainland China,

  • the CCP has been unceasing in its persecution of religious faith.

  • It has frantically arrested and killed Christians,

  • and has expelled and abused missionaries working in China.

  • The grisly atrocities and wicked deeds have piled up,

  • too numerous to count.

  • On the surface,

  • the CCP provides religious freedom in the Constitution,

  • but in reality, it is covering up the facts

  • and deceiving the people of the world.

  • Its ultimate aim is to eradicate religious faith,

  • turning China into a land without God.

  • It wants to control the people of China forever!

  • Never before has a regime been

  • as bloody in its persecution of religious faith as the CCP government.

  • It regards Christianity and Catholicism as cults.

  • It has labeled the Bible a "book of cults,"

  • and has confiscated and burned countless copies of it.

  • It has seized and demolished churches,

  • and tried to eradicate all house churches.

  • Under the rabid oppression and brutal persecution of the CCP government,

  • countless Christians have been arrested, tortured, and imprisoned.

  • Many others have had to go into hiding,

  • unable to return home.

  • The CCP's persecution of some church leaders left them disabled or dead.

  • Subjected to profound suffering,

  • Chinese Christians became even more fervent in their prayers for the Lord Jesus' return,

  • and for deliverance from CCP persecution.

  • During the last days,

  • God has once again become flesh in the EastChina.

  • In 1991,

  • Christ of the last days, Almighty God formally took up His ministry.

  • Since then, Almighty God has expressed millions of words.

  • Upon the foundation of the Lord Jesus' work of redemption,

  • He carried out the next stage of judgment beginning from the house of God.

  • God's sheep hear His voice.

  • The people of various sects and denominations

  • who loved the truth and yearned for God's appearance,

  • have recognized that Almighty God's words were full of authority and power,

  • that they were the truth,

  • and that this was the voice of God.

  • They believed that Almighty God was the returned Lord Jesus,

  • and one by one they came before Almighty God.

  • In little more than 20 years,

  • several million people in mainland China have come to accept Almighty God.

  • The rapid growth of The Church of Almighty God sparked panic in the CCP.

  • To eradicate The Church of Almighty God,

  • the CCP held numerous emergency meetings,

  • issued secret documents,

  • and mobilized the police and army to maniacally oppress the Church.

  • It even threatened that

  • "Troops would not have a day's rest in eliminating The Church of Almighty God."

  • The whole of mainland China rained blood,

  • dark clouds descended,

  • and there was universal outrage and indignation.

  • Today,

  • the Christians of all the house churches in mainland China,

  • particularly those of The Church of Almighty God,

  • are experiencing even more brutal and bloody persecution by the CCP.

  • These Christians' bloodshed and loss of life

  • are like a song of victory over the forces of Satan,

  • and tell the grisly tale of Chinese Christians' persecution.

  • Spring Festival of 2015 was just around the corner.

  • At a time of happiness, when families reunite,

  • a tragedy occurred in the grounds of a rental apartment block

  • in some county of Hunan Province.

  • The block's other tenants had already returned home for the holidays.

  • The only remaining tenant had died unexpectedly.

  • The deceased was a woman approximately 30 years old.

  • She was lying face up on the ground,

  • and there was a pool of blood under her head.

  • A handcuffed woman was squatting in the courtyard,

  • her face streaked with tears.

  • There was animated discussion among the crowd of onlookers.

  • Who was this dead woman?

  • And who was the handcuffed woman?

  • Was she the killer?

  • What happened between them?

  • How did the deceased die?

  • The tragic state of the deceased provoked unease among the onlookers.

  • Coming before Chinese New Year,

  • the murder case cast a pall over the happy atmosphere.

  • The Song family was deeply shocked by the sudden news of Xiaolan's death.

  • Their hopes for a happy family reunion during Chinese New Year

  • were completely shattered.

  • They simply couldn't accept that she had killed herself.

  • Harboring strong suspicions,

  • Mrs. Song and Xiaolan's sister hurried to the funeral parlor.

  • On the way to the funeral parlor,

  • Mrs. Song thought back to when her daughter had left home.

  • 28-year-old Song Xiaolan was a Christian of The Church of Almighty God.

  • She was of good humanity, and a true believer in God.

  • Mrs. Song didn't believe it for a moment.

  • Her daughter had only rented the room to do some work for the church.

  • Nothing had been out of the ordinary recently.

  • How could she suddenly throw herself out of the window?

  • Seeing that the girl in the mortuary refrigerator really was her daughter,

  • Mrs. Song broke down in tears.

  • Distraught, Mrs. Song collapsed on the floor.

  • His face impassive,

  • Mr. He, the officer in charge of the case, said nothing.

  • How did Song Xiaolan die?

  • And who was the woman the police took away?

  • Since Song Xiaolan's death was not connected to Zhao Qin,

  • who was the real killer?

  • What really happened?

  • Zhao Qin didn't have a clue what was happening.

  • Song Xiaolan got up in the morning to go to the toilet,

  • how could she suddenly end up dead in the courtyard?

  • Song Xiaolan's family were also disturbed by the cause of her death.

  • In the funeral parlor,

  • Officer He, who knew the Song family, was relentless in casting the blame on Mrs. Song.

  • He said that Song Xiaolan's death was connected to her faith.

  • This made Mrs. Song suspicious.

  • Officer He took out a photo and asked her to identify it.

  • Mrs. Song looked at the photo and instantly recognized it as Zhao Qin.

  • Mrs. Song and Zhao Qin were both Christians in The Church of Almighty God.

  • They knew each other very well.

  • She knew that Zhao Qin couldn't have harmed her daughter.

  • What made her most suspicious was,

  • in the morning the police had said her daughter had thrown herself out of the window,

  • but now they were saying she had been killed.

  • What was going on?

  • Mrs. Song had been completely bewildered,

  • but what Officer He said next inadvertently revealed something.

  • The talk of secret monitoring confirmed Mrs. Song's suspicions.

  • There was no way her daughter killed herself.

  • There must be something unknown about her sudden death.

  • After rushing to the funeral parlor,

  • the Song family was consumed with anguish when they saw the body.

  • They didn't believe for a second

  • that Song Xiaolan, who was so open and full of life,

  • could have thrown herself out of a window.

  • In particular, the deep wound to her head couldn't have been caused by a fall.

  • Officer He's conflicting explanation also heightened the Song family's suspicions.

  • The police were covering up the truth.

  • To find proof, at 3 p.m. on this day,

  • members of the Song family hurried to the scene of Song Xiaolan's death.

  • Seeing two pools of blood on the ground and the outline of the body,

  • Mr. Song felt like his heart was going to break.

  • Xiaolan's husband, too, couldn't stop the tears from streaming down his face.

  • Her room had been turned upside down by the police,

  • and anything of any worth had been taken away.

  • When they saw the window, the family were incensed.

  • It felt like they were being strung along.

  • All the windows in the room had metal bars in them,

  • there was no way anyone could jump out.

  • The police's claim that Song Xiaolan had jumped to her death

  • was utter nonsense!

  • After seeing this,

  • the Song family headed to the County Public Security Bureau,

  • full of suspicion.

  • They confronted Mr. Bin, the captain of the local Criminal Police Group.

  • The captain had unexpectedly given a different account of Song Xiaolan's death.

  • Earlier, the police explicitly said Song Xiaolan jumped out a window.

  • Next, Officer He said she had been killed by Zhao Qin.

  • And now Captain Bin was saying

  • that Song Xiaolan had jumped off the building after drinking pesticide.

  • Why were the CCP police giving conflicting accounts of Song Xiaolan's death?

  • The police's stalling and apathy provoked a deep anger in the Song family.

  • After the police's repeated lies,

  • the Song family came to a painful decision:

  • They had to find out how she died.

  • To prove that Song Xiaolan hadn't drunk pesticide,

  • they asked for an autopsy on her body.

  • At 6 p.m. that day in the dissecting room,

  • Song Xiaolan's father and husband

  • discovered a large bruise on her left thigh

  • and a small bruise on her left calf.

  • She had clearly been beaten before she died.

  • Song Xiaolan's husband also discovered something else:

  • There was a large rip in the outside of his wife's right trouser leg.

  • His wife had always kept herself very clean.

  • The dirt and damage to her trousers likely happened around her death.

  • The Song family didn't realize at the time

  • that the damage to the trousers was a clue that proved Song Xiaolan had been killed.

  • The forensic doctors first opened her chest and abdomen for an examination and sampling.

  • When the gastric juice was sampled,

  • Song Xiaolan's father and husband couldn't smell any pesticide.

  • There was nothing to substantiate the police's claim

  • that Song Xiaolan had drunk pesticide.

  • After the autopsy,

  • the County Public Security Bureau kept delaying the release of the autopsy report.

  • Over and over, the Song family went and asked for the results,

  • but the police were contemptuous and domineering throughout,

  • using every manner of excuse to stall and delay.

  • This string of lies gave the family the feeling

  • that the police were deliberately hiding the truth,

  • and they wouldn't give them a key piece of evidence like the autopsy report easily.

  • The Song family was plunged into utter despair.

  • It was a chilly morning on March 2,

  • the air was unusually cold.

  • The Song family anxiously returned to the scene of Song Xiaolan's death

  • to pore over every nook and corner.

  • This time, they found a lot.

  • Although it had already been over half a month,

  • and someone had already scrubbed the ground clean,

  • the specks of blood had seeped into the concrete ground.

  • They were still clearly visible.

  • They had become stains that couldn't be washed away.

  • The spots of blood were silent,

  • yet they also seemed to be saying something.

  • The specks of blood seemed to be leading the family ever closer to the truth.

  • The police had said Song Xiaolan had drunk pesticide and then jumped to her death.

  • But her father couldn't accept this explanation.

  • If his daughter had drunk pesticide,

  • why, right before she died, would she have put the empty bottle back beneath her bed,

  • then jumped to her death?

  • Added to that,

  • there wasn't the faintest smell of pesticide during the autopsy.

  • Song Xiaolan's father was certain that his daughter hadn't drunk pesticide.

  • So how did she really die?

  • Visiting the scene of Song Xiaolan's death left her family certain

  • that she had been beaten unconscious and dragged to the roof by someone.

  • And then they threw her off the building

  • to fabricate the scene of her death.

  • Having worked this out, the family had another cause for suspicion.

  • Who had really killed Song Xiaolan?

  • And why did they want to kill her?

  • Why did the police keep lying, protecting the murderer?

  • Incensed, members of the Song family once again returned

  • to the County Public Security Bureau

  • to demand Song Xiaolan's autopsy report.

  • But, seeing them, Captain Bin and others slipped quietly away.

  • On March 15,

  • Mr. Song received an unexpected call from the County Public Security Bureau,

  • saying that they were going to provide the family

  • with a video from the scene of Song Xiaolan's death.

  • The video released by the police once more exposed their lies.

  • Previously, Captain Bin had said

  • the empty bottle was found under Song Xiaolan's bed.

  • Now they were saying it was found in the bathroom.

  • One of the onlookers at the time was from the same town as Mr. Song,

  • and told him that

  • when Song Xiaolan died, she was clearly lying on her back on the ground.

  • But in the police video, she was face down.

  • At the time, the police made no effort to save Song Xiaolan.

  • But in the video, there was a shot of an ambulance driving off.

  • These and other questionable details proved

  • that the video, which was supposedly shot at the scene of Song Xiaolan's death,

  • had been entirely edited together from clips.

  • The police had made a fake video for blinding the family,

  • and they'd done a shoddy job of it.

  • It made the family members even more angry.

  • In their conflicting accounts,

  • the police kept changing the cause of Song Xiaolan's death.

  • It had revealed their shamelessness of their many lies and blatant deception.

  • The police had no answer to the questions the Song family shouted loud and clear.

  • But they kept coming up with excuses.

  • There was no end to their sophistries.

  • They did their utmost to avoid blame,

  • and even continued to concoct shameless lies.

  • The family was exasperated,

  • and they also felt a deep sense of helplessness.

  • They sought help from a relative who worked for the government,

  • who replied straightaway

  • that he had a contact in the Public Security Bureau that he would talk to.

  • After meeting with the police captain,

  • the relative told the Song family what he'd said.

  • Hearing the police's backhanded revelation of the truth,

  • the Song family was overcome with anger.

  • They finally understood that

  • it was the CCP police who had killed Song Xiaolan.

  • In view of the police's callous disregard for human life

  • and attempts to cover up the truth,

  • the Song family decided to file a lawsuit.

  • But the police united in saying that Song Xiaolan had poisoned herself.

  • They also aggressively threatened the family,

  • saying they had nowhere to seek justice.

  • Seeing the police's lawlessness and how they used their authority to bully people,

  • the Song family was left with no alternative

  • but to swallow the injustice and give up on the case.

  • In this way, the murder case came to an ignominious end.

  • Later, an insider revealed that

  • Song Xiaolan had been monitored by the police

  • because she was ceaseless in performing her duty

  • after coming to believe in Almighty God.

  • At 5 a.m. in the morning on February 12,

  • Officer He and several other plainclothes policemen

  • surrounded the apartment where Song Xiaolan was living.

  • At 6 a.m., Song Xiaolan emerged to go to the toilet.

  • Plainclothes policemen grabbed her and struck a vicious blow at her.

  • Believing she wouldn't survive,

  • they threw her from the roof,

  • to give the impression that she had thrown herself to her death.

  • The police came up with an assortment of lies,

  • but in fact, they were trying to cover up the truth and escape blame.

  • The CCP's cruel murder of Song Xiaolan

  • caused every generation of the Song family to live in pain.

  • After Song Xiaolan died,

  • her daughter was left distraught

  • by the knowledge that she would never see her mother again.

  • She couldn't stop herself from crying every time she thought of her mom.

  • The young son didn't know his mother had already died,

  • and cried out for her every day.

  • Song Xiaolan's mother was also left desolated.

  • Every day, tears ran down her face.

  • Her body grew increasingly frail.

  • After her daughter died, she started having frequent fainting fits.

  • The Song family refused to accept

  • that the CCP had killed Song Xiaolan

  • simply because she believed in God and had been carrying out her duty.

  • The pain of losing a loved one could never be extinguished.

  • On April 4,

  • Mrs. Song once more returned to the apartment where her daughter had died.

  • In a secret place, she found her daughter's notebook.

  • In it was an unsent letter.

  • Looking at her daughter's familiar handwriting,

  • Mrs. Song felt a strong longing for Xiaolan.

  • The pain of losing her daughter once again filled her eyes with tears.

  • She could almost see her daughter.

In the mid-nineteenth century,

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