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The history of Jews and Christians is littered with religious persecution and extermination. Today the persecution is escalating, but not for religious purposes alone but for profit!

Yes, you read that right. Christians have become a very profitable commodity in China and soon around the world.

Here is an ugly truth. Last week, Chinese authorities launched a sweeping crackdown, arresting over 30 leaders and members of the underground Zion Church in what activists are calling the largest such operation in over four decades. But beyond the iron bars and whispered interrogations lies a darker specter: the commodification of faith itself. Reports and testimonies suggest that these Christian detainees, defiant practitioners of a "foreign" belief system, are now a fresh source for China's lucrative organ trade, their bodies harvested post-execution and discarded in unmarked mass graves.

The arrests, spanning at least 10 cities from Beijing to Shanghai, targeted pastors, staff, and congregants accused of "illegal dissemination of religious information via the internet." At the epicenter is Ezra Jin Mingri, the church's founder and a U.S.-educated pastor whose daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, now living in America, described the raid on her father's Beihai home as "extremely shocking and very scary." Jin, who returned to China despite being aware of the risks following his church's 2018 shutdown, is facing charges that align with the regime's agenda: intellectual crimes against the Communist Party's unwavering atheism.

NOTE: Remember, many Christians practice a clean lifestyle. No or little alcohol or drug use, including legal prescription drugs; sexual responsibility; and overall, mostly a clean, healthy lifestyle, perfect specimens having healthy transplantable organs ready for harvesting.

Zion Church, born in a modest Beijing apartment in 2007, ballooned into a network of 10,000 followers across 40 cities, blending online sermons with clandestine gatherings to evade state surveillance. Refusing to install government-mandated CCTV or pledge loyalty to the Party, it became a symbol of resistance.

Now, with Jin and colleagues like Pastor Sun Cong vanished into facilities such as Beihai Number Two Prison, fears ripple through China's estimated 100 million underground Christians, far outnumbering the 44 million in state-sanctioned churches. "They can arrest bodies, but not souls."

This incident isn't an isolated purge. Just last month, over 70 believers were detained in eastern China during raids on house churches, part of Xi Jinping's decade-long campaign of "Sinicization" to remake religions in the Party's image. Churches stripped of crosses, youth barred from monasteries, and pastors, elders, and members funneled into "re-education" camps—these are the blueprints.

For Christians, it means rewriting the Bible to exalt Xi, banning children and Party members from services, and swapping Jesus posters for portraits of the leader. As one Henan pastor told the Associated Press in 2018, "They want us to worship the Party, not God."

Yet the true horror lurks in what happens after the cuffs click shut. China's organ transplant industry, valued at billions, has long thrived on the unwilling donations of the regime's enemies. This secretly began in the late 1990s; thousands were allegedly vivisected alive for kidneys, livers, and hearts and have become a wholesale operation with profit projections into the millions.  

Dr. Enver Tohti, a former Chinese surgeon who turned whistleblower and currently serves as the head of the World Uyghur Christian Union, speaks candidly about the situation. In a 2023 interview, he confessed to his role in the 1990s: extracting organs from a gunshot prisoner on an execution ground, the man's final breaths funding the regime's medical machine. "House Christians are targeted because they reject communism."

Tohti said. "They're state assets, not humans."

He alleges a national database now matches donors in weeks, fueled by forced blood tests and ultrasounds on detainees, examinations eerily absent for common criminals.

Victims endure extractions of hearts, corneas, and livers without consent, their bodies buried in mass graves to erase traces. Though Beijing claims it ended prisoner sourcing in 2015, skeptics point to the math: China performs 60,000 transplants annually against a voluntary donor pool of just 375,000 registered in 2017, yielding a fraction of the procedures.

The CCP treats Christians’ reeducation camps as ‘organ farms.’ No doubt there are step-by-step blueprint instructions on how to identify Christians, report them, and then wait for your reward check and, in some cases, your new kidneys and liver.

Final Word: Remember, Christians have become too valuable to crucify when their organs are worth tens of thousands on the newly emerging Christian organ market. How horrible!

Footnote: An unusual mathematical phenomenon occurs: the more Christians that are murdered, the more Christians there are. Is China in for a revival?