After 18 years of invasion and revolution and a year of Communist domination, there are still an estimated 1,000 Protestant and 5,000 Roman Catholic foreign missionary workers in China. But now that the Communist government has rung down the Bamboo Curtain on U.S. activities in China (TIME, Jan. 8), many of the sowers must leave the seed to grow or wither without their care.
From Hong Kong last week came reports that Chinese Communist measures against foreigners were forcing large groups of Protestant missionaries to leave the country. Meanwhile, Peking Radio announced that a new "independent" church was being set up...
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