In this conversation, Massimo Introvigne shares the story of The Church of Almighty God, a group in China that has seen rapid growth, dramatic persecution, and the struggle of believers to see asylum in countries around the world. Among the items discussed, Introvigne reconstructs the Church's idiosyncratic theology, centered in the belief that Jesus Christ has returned in our time in the shape of a Chinese woman, worshipped as Almighty God, to eradicate the sinful human nature and that we have entered the third and final time period in the history of humanity: the Age of the Kingdom. Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist, the managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), in Torino, Italy, and the author of some 70 books in the fields of new religious movements and pluralism. Inside the Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China by Massimo Introvigne: https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Church-Almighty-God-Persecuted/dp/0190089091/ CESNUR: https://www.cesnur.org/ Bitter Winter: https://bitterwinter.org/ Learn more about our work at https://www.multifaithmatters.org. Support this work: One-time donation: https://multifaithmatters.org/donate Become my patron: https://patron.podbean.com/johnwmorehead #MassimoIntrovigne #ChurchofAlmightyGod #ChineseReligion