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Channel4.com: Inside China's Jesus cult
Date: 2014-12-24 Source: Kaiwind

 (Kaiwind.com) British Channel 4 TV station has released a documentary report on the Church of Almighty God, according to the Station’s website news on Dec.23, 2014.

The news says, the Church is a million-strong doomsday sect that believe Jesus has returned to earth as a middle aged Chinese woman named Lightening Deng.

The reporter interviewed Samuel,a 39-year-old member and migrant worker from central China. Samuel found God in an underground church 10 years ago in his home town. After converting to the Church of Almighty God he sold his home, gave the money to the sect and moved to Beijing to preach the word of a female Jesus, starting a new life away from his family.

To ask of her (the female god’s) whereabouts is "against the will of God", to question her preaching is "against the will of God" and to ask too many questions, is ,well "against the will of God", the reporter was told by Samuel

The group worship in secret, members never talk on mobile phones and they are banned by the Chinese government. But membership is growing.

The followers of the Church of Almighty God, who murdered a woman in Zhaoyuan City of Shandong province, are trying in a court

The Church of Almighty God is just one of many off-shoot Christian sects across this atheist nation. China has more Christians than communist party members. It's said that more Chinese attend Sunday mass than the whole of Europe combined. But strict religious control force many churches to operate in secret, providing fertile ground for the growth of off-shoot sects. What marks the Church of Almighty God apart is that it is warring with the communist party. It calls the party is the "great red dragon" which it is out to destroy. The report continues.

But the sect has a history of violence, assassination, murder and poisoning. In the 1990s believers kidnapped pastors from village churches in an attempt to convert leaders and their flocks. In May of 2014, a young mother was murdered by members after she refused their advances in a McDonald's restaurant in Eastern China.

It is in the countryside that the sect is at its strongest, and they outnumber police in certain counties. The reporter was told when he visited Samuel’s hometown.

Watch John Sparks' full report on Channel 4 News at 7pm.