Christian Memorial Service Held for Boy Killed in Shanghai Knife Attack

The wreaths sent by Shanghai Community Fellowship and Moore Memorial Church
The wreaths sent by Shanghai Community Fellowship and Moore Memorial Church (photo: WeChat account: Shanghai Christianity )
By Karen LuoJuly 16th, 2018

On July 5, 2018, a memorial service was held in Shanghai to commemorate a boy killed in an attack outside an elementary school.

on June 28, 2018, a man used a kitchen knife to stab three boys and a mother outside the Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School in Xuhui District. Two schoolchildren were dead on the way to the hospital. According to a police news release, the suspect was surnamed Huang, 29 years old, and unemployed.

In the local funeral parlor, Rev. Jiang Xili used 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 to comfort the relatives and friends of one of the attack victims, Fei Qixuan, according to the WeChat account "Shanghai Christianity". The choir of Shanghai Community Fellowship sang hymns.

Fei's teachers and Christian family recalled his life. Fei, 11, once wrote a sentence in his workbook: "Time is too short to tell a truth. I want a pair of swings."

Instead of showing bitterness and hatred, his mother shared a verse from the book Job: "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." She promised to take heart to face his death and live.

According to Gospel Times, a Chinese Christian daily news website, "I saw God's providence and heavenly peace from the family, either from their remarks, words, or deeds," said a believer who attended the service.

Another Christian said that before the service, the song Remember Me from the movie Coco played in a continuous loop, moving many people to tears. She added that the shock and affection left her speechless. "The family's godliness and virtues were far beyond imagination."

Connecting the issue to "Amish Grace", a professor from Shanghai said that through forgiveness that meant giving up the legal right, the victim and perpetrator would reach a settlement, a real harmony. The Christian forgiveness surpassed the law rather than deny the law that could only maintain the baseline of society by punishment and failed to bring the accommodation between the two sides.

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