guwahati the nagaland baptist church council nbcc has cautioned all baptist associations under it in the christianmajority state to shield from the eastern lightning cult of china that teaches that jesus has come back to earth as a woman named yang xiangbin also called lightning dengthe cult was founded in china in 1991 and is banned in the countrythe nbcc believes that the cult has already made inroads in the northeast including nagaland and that the new testament has been replaced by their new bible called the word appears in the fleshnbcc general secretary rev dr zelhou keyho in his note of caution stated i am writing this with grave concern concerning a cult called the church of almighty god from china reportedly making inroads into our landhe stated the church of almighty god or eastern lightning cult is a well organized group aggressively moving forward with publication and creating many facebook pages and colourful artwork that appears biblical and enticingwarning that the cult is spreading false gospel the nbcc urged all to beware and take every measure to shield our respective congregations from such false religionnbcc youth secretary vikuo rhi told toi we know that they have already entered nagaland and northeast india but we are yet to ascertain where and how many of them are here they are much active on facebook and whatsapp they try to lure people especially the young onesrhi said this cult is from china by chinese people and we just generally know that there are many in nagaland and the northeast who follow it even few nagas are there and also some from other ne states they follow this cult and some have even come out of it after knowing what it ishe added the nbcc came to know about this for the first time sometime in may we are trying to create awareness in our churches through different associations and even in the mediaeastern lightning the church of almighty god came into being because of the work of the returned lord jesusthe endtime christ almighty godin china reads the cults fb page which has got 3348 followersmany church leaders in nagland believe that there could be at least 400 to 500 followers of this cult in the state and majority of them stay connected through a whatsapp group where they have their daily worshiptwo years back before the 2018 assembly election the nbcc had made another appeal to believers to choose between trishul and cross in an open letter to presidents of all political parties in nagaland it had stated that india had experienced its worst persecution of minority communities in 20152017 under the bjp government bjp won 11 of 60 seats and is part of an alliance governmentwatch chinese female jesus worries nagaland church