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Dear Friend:
Across China this Christmas, some Christian families will not be exchanging gifts and singing joyous carols with family members and friends. Instead of “Silent Night, Holy Night, All is calm, All is bright,” for these families, Christmas Eve will be a SILENCED night because a mother or father or other family member is missing – either serving a prison sentence or in police custody for their faith.
A young mother sitting in a prison 175 miles southwest of Beijing will think of her two young sons – one just a year-old, the other 8-years-old – and wonder if they have watched the Christmas video message she left for them and her husband last year, just before she had to return to prison after the birth of her second child to finish serving a three-year sentence for printing Bibles and Christian books.
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Watch this half-minute video trailer of “Tina’s” touching farewell to her family. http://www.chinaaid.org/p/tian.html
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Your gift of as little as $25 can make a difference and change lives. If you’d like to receive this exclusive never-before-released video, click here to give your gift.
“Tina” is not the only Christian in China whose Christmas will be SILENCED.
The whereabouts of Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains a mystery nearly three years after he disappeared into police custody in February 2009. On Dec. 16, 2011, the Chinese government said he is being sent back to jail for another 3 years imprisonment because he violated rules, but his family still does not know where he is or how he is faring. Which secret prison is he going to be held for the next three years? What kind of Christmas will it be for him and his family? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9999003
And Uyghur Christian Alimujiang remains imprisoned, serving a 15-year prison sentence. How will his wife and two little boys celebrate this fourth Christmas without him?
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Be the first to watch “Tina’s” video and be encouraged! For a gift of as little as $25, we will send you her full video… and you will be encouraged too by the brave words of this young wife and mother. Request a DVD now:
http://chinaaid.info/christmas2011
You can help break the SILENCE of this Christmas by sending a Christmas card to “Tina” in prison: Ms. Hongxia Tian No. 4 Section of the Women’s Prison, P. O. Box 55, Lu-quan city, Hebei Province, P. R. China. Zip:050222
Your support will enable ChinaAid to encourage these families of imprisoned Christians. http://donate.chinaaid.org
Click here to read or download our 2011 Winter E-NewsBrief
Click here to forward the video link to your friends and tell them about “Tina.”
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