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China's cyberspacecrackdown on Christianity.

- Chinese Communist Party is determined

to erase and destroy theChinese Christian churches

- [Reporter] US troopwithdrawal, rise of the Taliban.

What it means for Afghan Christians.

- It could even encourage some of them

to want to leave the country.

- [Reporter] Critical race theory

and rewriting American history.

- What it's going to dois cause an ethnic war

in this country.

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Chinese Communist Partyis expanding its crackdown

against Christians.

Church members there sayit's the worst crackdown

since Mao's CulturalRevolution in the 1960s,

but Mao could never have

imagined cyberspace and social media.

The Chinese government isnow targeting Bible apps

and Christian chat rooms.

International Christian concern reports

that Christian WeChataccounts have been blocked.

And Bible apps have been removed

from the China App store.

Here with more is ChinaAid President Bob Fu,

his organization has justreleased its 2020 report

on persecution in China.

What do you make of thislatest news of China's

now targeting Christianchat rooms and Bible apps?

- Thank you, Gary.

Good to be with you again.

Yeah, I mean to remove and suspend

all the Bible relatedapps and teaching accounts

in the public WeChat rooms

with millions of followers

shows the Chinese Communist Party

is determined to erase and destroy

the Chinese Christian churches.

I mean even from the virtual site.

So with the so-calledpandemic of course excuses,

now the Christian churches

including both the officialgovernment sanctions churches

and the independent house churches,

they were all not allowed to operate

even in the virtual setting.

- That's amazing.

It's not just shuttingthe doors of buildings

but also shutting doors online.

So let's go a little broader now, Bob,

what did ChinaAid find

after examining Chinese government actions

against Christians and otherpeople of faith during 2020?

- ChinaAid has found withover in depth research

that in 2020, the persecutionagainst the Christian churches

against the human rights lawyers,

both in the government sanctions church

and the house churches have reached really

to the worst level that we have not seen

since the Cultural Revolution in 1960s.

I mean, this is the third year

of a top Communist Party'sso-called sensitization campaign

which means anything thatis found not compatible

with the President Xi's ideology,

communism, socialismis going to be regarded

as the enemy of the state ideology.

And we have seen even the church members

who are organizing prayermeetings online had been targeted

with criminal andadministrative detention.

Just in the past few days,

the largest house church in Beijing

the Beijing Zion churchhave two of their pastors

being kidnapped and even sentenced to

10 days administrative detention.

And we have seen of course underthis sensitization campaign

pastors receive four anda half years imprisonment

for refusing to put the Communist Party's

posters of propaganda intheir church building,

for refusing to put a Communist Party's

national flag at their parking lot.

Of course, so we have seen Pastor Wang Yi

that who was sentenced tonine years imprisonment

for preaching a sermon pleadingfor President Xi to suspend

his crack down, asking him to repent

so that he can get salvation.

That is 10 years, I mean,nine years imprisonment.

- And part of that, Bob,

I know we've talked in the past

about facial recognition software,

social credit scoring, peoplebeing denied jobs, promotions

they have low scores.

They're not consideredto be good communists.

They don't have favors.

So how is that scoringaffecting Christians

or people who are not part

of the government approvedgovernment controlled church?

- Yes, 2020 marked really the first year

I think is the whole called the national,

the digital authoritarianism rule

with literally 2.6 billionface recognition cameras

has been installed all over China

which means every Chinesewill have two face recognition

cameras are following them.

The so-called social creditscore had been also instated

with the big data plan.

If you are a Christian,

if you are especially a Christian pastor

or a house church leader

or anyone who has a religious faith

that is not compatible with the communism

will guaranteed have a lower score

which means you may be banned

from even buying a train ticket

or air flight tickets

and which means youcouldn't get a promotion

which means your family members

cannot join the civil servant test

or join the military.

So you are regarded absolutely

as second or third class citizen.

- A lot of Americans areafraid that may come here

with vaccine passports and so forth.

So finally, Bob, on this program

and other CBN News programs

we've reported for some time now

about the Chinese CommunistParty's persecution

of the ethnic Uyghurs.

Many of our viewers don't realize

that not all Uyghurs are Muslim.

There are quite a few UyghursChristians tell us about them

and do they suffer the same oppression?

- Yes, you're right.

Gary, the Uyghurs Christians

and Uyghurs Muslims, andeven the other minorities

like Kazakhs had beensuffering the genocide.

And as former Secretary Pompeo designated

I mean between 1 to 3 million

of them are still inthe concentration camp.

China Aid just rescued a Kazakh family.

The mother suffered at least 16 months

in the concentration camp.

She herself was abused,

and also she was a witness.

Eye witness seeing a systematic government

organized a force to prostitution

on how can we with a good conscience

deal with a governmentcommitting such a grave,

a genocide and a crime against humanity.

And yet we're stilltreated this as business

as usual like this Americancompanies are doing in China.

So it's the time to have a wake-up call.

- Okay. China Aid President Bob Fu.

Thank you Bob, for providingthose insights today.

We appreciate it.

- Thank you Gary, for having me.

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- [Reporter] Now that we'vemoved into the month of May.

Us troops are starting tomove out of Afghanistan.

President Biden has ordered the last

of the remaining 2,500 American troops

withdrawn by September 11th.

But some members of his own party

are urging him to reconsider.

Former Secretary of StateHillary Clinton says

the Biden decision is a wicked problem

with huge consequences.

- Well here to provideus with some insights

on what the US troop withdrawal may mean

for the people of Afghanistan,including the country's

tiny Christian community is John Weaver.

Mr. Weaver served the peopleof Afghanistan for many years.

He knows the country well.

He's author of the book,

Inside Afghanistan, A Missionof Mercy To a War Torn People

Before 9/11 and Beyond.

John, thank you for being with us.

So do you agree with formerSecretary of State Clinton

that the Afghanistan withdrawal decision

is a wicked problemwith huge consequences?

- Gary it is gonna have consequences

and we know without the US troops there

and the international community

it could turn into a volatile situation.

Only God knows how the Talibanwill proceed moving forward

with this decision.

- Well, I know we should beconcerned for all Afghans

but much attention of course

is being placed on theplight of women there.

What gains have they made

during the 20 year USpresence there, John?

What would the withdrawal mean for them?

- Well, there have been a lot of gains

for women and children.

You know, there's a lot ofdevelopment that's happened

over these 20 years, Gary,

but of course if theTaliban have more of control

we know that their agenda is very much

very strict conservativeIslamic view of life

which depresses women and children.

And so it could become worse for them.

- Well, I know that womenhave made tremendous gains

and so have children,

especially females in education, jobs.

We see them all over theplace, working in bakeries,

also, you know, baking bread,

also at beauty salons and so forth.

I mean, that's a significant difference

from what it was 20 years ago.

How do we assure that that continues?

- Well we pray and hopethat the Afghan government

the national army can keep,you know, peace and stability.

Yes, there are some wonderful gains.

I mean, having lived there

before 9/11 and nowliving there after 9/11

some amazing gains primarily for

well there's even womenin government, Gary.

I mean, it's amazing thesteps that have gone forward

for women and children

with the international community's help,

primarily led by our government,but only time will tell

if the Taliban had more of a seat

at the table in terms of the government

how they'll respond to those developments

specifically for women.

- We've seen some commentsfrom Afghan government leaders

and even members of the Afghan military

saying they are up to thetask of taking on the Taliban

by themselves.

Are they, what do you think?

- Well, I was just on acall a few minutes ago,

on a Zoom call with someAfghan church leaders.

And the challenge they sayis that in the remote areas

it is more difficult for the national army

but in places like, youknow, Mazar and Kabul

and Herat the bigger cities,

there is a growing presence of the police

and the Afghan military.

I've actually seen attimes where they have tried

to do what they can tokeep the Taliban at bay.

But only time's going to tell

how this will actually play out.

- What can you tell us aboutMuslim background believers,

the MBBs in Afghanistan.

- There are thousands of them.

Often we get asked thequestion, do we know how many?

We always would say,well, there's not enough

but yet there are a few thousand

Muslim background believerswho are following Jesus now.

They love Jesus.

They meet in the houses.

It's a small group type of a venue.

It is slowly spreading,

but it is very dangerous,very difficult for them.

We want to stand withthem in prayer and support

and believe that as we know,the gospel is the answer.

Jesus is the answer, thekingdom of God is the answer.

And we pray that like 11and the dough the gospel

and got into spread

throughout the 34provinces of Afghanistan.

- What will the US troop withdrawal mean

for those Christians?

I'm assuming they'reconsidered to be apostate.

So their lives are at risk anyway,

there'll still be in danger regardless.

So what will it mean for them also

for the advancement ofthe gospel in Afghanistan?

- Well, time will tell,

but obviously if theTaliban have more of a say,

they will definitely wantto add more persecution

that already exists towards

the minority Christiancommunity that's there.

It could even encourage some of them

to want to leave the country.

You know, there's arevival happening in Iran

and some of that spillingover, even into Afghanistan.

So we don't know exactly

how migration might influence Afghans

that are in the country

but we want to trustnow that there's enough

of a Christian presence thatwill stay in the country

continue to be salt and lightand to weather the storm

possibly a persecution and opposition

from a more Taliban influence government.

But yet we know God'snot, no one can stop God,

no one can stop his spirit.

And so we trust his word

will continue to spreadthroughout Afghanistan

in the midst of thesechallenging days ahead for them.

- So the troops may not bethere, but God is always there.

So a lot to pray about, right, John?

- Amen. God is always at work.

Would encourage the listeners,

please stand in prayers.

It's Ramadan now, someof you might be aware

that God does mysterious thingsduring the month of Ramadan

revealing himself to Muslimsin dreams and visions.

We hear testimonies of that all the time

but let's please stand in prayer

for our brothers andsisters in Afghanistan.

The gospel was spread notonly among the 34 provinces

but the dozens of people, groups

and tribal groups and ethnicgroups and language groups.

There'll be a witness, aclear witness of the gospel.

- Okay, John Weaver, author of the book,

Inside Afghanistan, AMission of Mercy To a War

Torn People Before 9/11 and Beyond.

Thank you, John.

We appreciate your insight.

- Thank you, Gary.

Bless you.

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- The state of Idaho is pushingback against the teaching

of Critical Race Theoryin its public schools.

Governor Brad Little hasfollowed the lead of governors

in Utah and Arkansasby signing legislation

enacting a ban on CRT teaching

also at public universities in his state.

US Department of Educationunder President Biden

is proposing the public schools

in the entire US should be forced

to teach Critical Race Theory.

At the heart of Critical Race Theory

is the idea that America was founded

by White supremacists

and the country's history

of racism and inequalitystill has an impact

on modern day societyright here in the USA.

Well, joining us to share his thoughts

and set us straight is Autry Pruitt.

Mr. Pruitt is the CEO

of the New JourneyPolitical Action Committee.

Autry, always good to talk to you.

Thanks for being here.

So what's the historyof the CRT, the origins

and why is Critical RaceTheory being pushed now?

- Well, the origins go,

actually, if you reallyreally trace the origins,

go way back into the 60s.

Although a lot of thisstuff is more modernized.

This stuff goes wayback in the 50s and 60s.

Some of it with the radicalsocialists at the time

but the notion is very, very simple.

The notion that everythinghas to be viewed

through a pigment

through the prism, excuseme, of pigmentation.

Everything has to beviewed in that manner.

And so it doesn't matterwhat subject you're in.

It doesn't matter whatpoint you're in history

rather you're now

or rather you're back in16, 1750 or 1664, right?

Doesn't matter.

You've got to view it

through the lens ofsomeone's pigmentation.

And then that informs howthings progressed in the future.

So you have a situation now

and it particularly in theUS where schools want to say

you cannot succeed or arethere things you can't do

or you will always havebe held back because

originally the country was founded for, by

and to support only White males.

- Well, I'm kind of offended by that

because I'm a descendant

of someone who came here on the Mayflower

and I must say, I know theycame for religious freedom

because they were beingpersecuted in England.

So why do you believethe CRT is now a threat

to the future of the nation?

- The CRT is a threat to thefuture of not only the nation

but us as individuals, becausewhat it does is it tries

to put people in categories and groups

that have nothing to do withthe actual demonstration,

demonstrable demonstration of your merit,

of what you do, of what you go out

and how you access the community.

It has nothing to do with your work ethic.

It has nothing to doif you show up on time.

And what it's going todo is cause an ethnic war

in this country, that'swhat's gonna happen.

And it's to some extentit's already happening

- Well, and it may leadto more segregation.

And my understandingMartin Luther King Jr.

fought for integration

not segregation herewe are right back again

where we were prior tothe civil rights struggle.

So a number of States

have either passedlegislation or considering it.

So what's the likelihoodthe federal government

will drop its push

if more States start banning it.

- I think the federal government's gonna

keep its push going because theSupreme court ruled long ago

that if you take the federal tax dollars

then the federal governmentcan put stipulations

can put controls and rulesthat come with those dollars.

So I think the left side of the aisle

the Democrats are goingto keep pushing forward

within the federal governmentto keep CRT on the agenda

or you're gonna be forced toturn down those federal money.

- Well, Autry then Iguess it just means people

are going to have to goto their school boards

and get more involved.

Is that correct?

- Yes. It means two things.

One they're gonna haveto get more involved

in their school boards inthe curriculum development,

and two, what thelegislature should be doing

is passing laws that basically say

they set up parent reading committees

and we can pay the parents for this,

for their time by the way,parent reading committees, right?

It can rotate between a volunteer list

of parents who are... or list of parents.

I'm sorry, who want to volunteer to read.

And we can again reimbursethem for their time.

So it's semi-volunteer, but these parents

have to be currentlyin the school district

their students have to be current students

in the school district andthey should read textbooks

before they're used in the classroom.

That's the way to solve this problem.

And they give it their stamp of approval.

Then at that point, the teacher

or the school district can use it.

That would curb a lot of this stuff,

right from the beginning

- Oh that sounds like a sensible solution,

Autry Pruitt, CEO of New Journey PAC.

Thank you Autry for setting us straight.

We appreciate you.

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- New questions are beingraised about possible juror bias

on the George Floyd trial.

Late last August, juror number 52

Brandon Mitchell attendeda 57th anniversary rally

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But the event was more

than just a commemoration ofthat historic turning point

in America's civil rights struggle.

Mitchell and other attendeesheard speaker after speaker

including George Floyd's family members

talk about Floyd and police brutality.

- It's time to get your kneeoff our neck in this country.

- My brother cannot be a voice today.

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First, Mitchell told members of the media

that he had never been to Washington.

Then this photo surfaced on Facebook

showing him attending the DC rally

wearing a Black Lives Matters T-shirt.

Mitchell later admittedand defended his attendance

saying the protest providedhim the opportunity

to be part of something.

Well, last week, Mitchell appeared

on Good Morning Americatalking about George Floyd.

- His name is going to live on,

his legacy is now cemented in history.

And that is huge.

And that is unfortunate.

That's a positive lining

within a negative result as his death.

But that's just me as a positive person

who's kind of lookingtowards the bright side.

- So not an impartial roledetermining guilt or innocence

but Mitchell viewing his mission

as one to bring aboutpositive change to society.

Folks, Mitchell wasnot an impartial juror.

He may have committed a felony

on his jury selection questionnaire.

When asked if he had ever participated

in a protest about police use of force

or police brutality,Mitchell responded no.

He said the August,2020 march on Washington

was 100% not a demonstrationfor George Floyd

but it was at least partially about Floyd.

Also during juror selection,Mitchell told the judge

he knew nothing about theDerek Chauvin George Floyd case

but it was discussed repeatedly

at that DC rally that Mitchell attended.

Folks it's time to set aside emotions.

Social change cannot comewhen there's been injustice

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As unsympathetic as most of us are

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