Some old believers crowded at the crossing to their church in Huainan, China’s eastern Anhui Province, as the local authority was about to remove the cross from the top of their church.

In his early twenties, Brother K is an undergraduate who also serves as a campus group leader in a registered church. He holds that there are no zealous college students in traditional churches and the latter must change to attract young people

There have been some weird suggestions, such as in America where COVID patients were told they would be healed by watching TV programmes in which pastors perform healings. Some South Korean pastors believed in God's protection of His believers so, therefore, encouraged congregations not to fear infection and therefore continued having on-site gatherings. Apart from that, there have been various responses to the outbreak by the Chinese Christian media. The responses can be categorized into three main types.

Carol Bookstore, a 12-year-old online Christian bookstore broke the news of Bible commentary books banned on its Taobao platform, where the store has more than 20 thousand followers over the past nine years.

However, is this really the case? If we examine it carefully, we’ll see that the hot trend on the Web may not indicate that the Church is reviving but perhaps it’s declining.