China Seizes Web Writer Who Backed Church
China not pleased with blogger who posted information regarding crackdown on unofficial Christian churches. Man charged with leaking state secrets.
bq.. SHANGHAI, China An Internet writer who posted articles online supporting China’s unofficial Christian church has been arrested amid a widening police crackdown on unregistered religious activities, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Tuesday.
Computer technician Zhang Shengqi (search) was detained last month in a raid on the home of his fiancee in the northeastern city of Jilin and has been charged with leaking state secrets, the China Aid Association (search) said.
Zhang was later transferred to a jail in the eastern city of Hangzhou (search), where local authorities earlier detained two other activists as part of a crackdown on unofficial church activities, the association said.
p. What type of worship is allowed in China? State registered churches? A hard concept to grasp for one who had not travailed in a communist nation.
bq. China allows worship only in tightly controlled state churches and regards unregistered congregations as subversive channels for foreign infiltration. Those who meet outside the official church are routinely harassed and fined, and sometimes sent to labor camps.
p. Yet another reason to pray for those who intend for follow Christ at any cost
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