Christians have been praying for protection and justice for Chinese Christians who have taken a stand against the government’s forced demolition of Christian crosses and churches. Last week the authorities released a pastor who had been imprisoned for eight months for speaking out frequently against this ongoing persecution of Christians in the country. Some suggested that Zhang Chongzhu might have also been singled out for meeting a US diplomat in Shanghai last year. We can praise God for this breakthrough and continue to pray and ask God to bring about a complete end to the Communist party’s targeting of places of worship with building code bureaucracy.