The Ecumenical News International (ENI) website reports today that a U.S. religious advocacy group -- which often opposes "liberal theology" -- has criticized the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) for ignoring religious persecution in China during a recent visit by alliance officials.
"We are glad that the WEA was able to minister to and encourage China's officially registered church," said Faith McDonnell, the Institute of Religion and Democracy's religious liberty program director. "But we cannot do service to one part of the Body of Christ at the cost of doing disservice to another," McDonnell added.
"We find it staggering that there was no acknowledgment of the 80 million or more Chinese house church Christians or what they face from the Chinese government," McDonnell said in a January 14, 2010 statement concerning the churches not officially registered with the Chinese government.
The WEA is a network of churches in 128 nations that represents some 420 million evangelical Christians.
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