US EditionChina Detains Dozens of Underground Church Pastors in Crackdown
More than 30 church leaders were detained across six provinces as part of a coordinated crackdown targeting unregistered Christian congregations, officials and advocates said.
- China detained around 30 pastors and church members of Zion Church, an unofficial "house church", in overnight raids across several cities over the weekend.
- The US Secretary of State condemned the crackdown, calling it an exercise of the Chinese Communist Party's "hostility towards Christians who reject Party interference in their faith".
- Pastor Jin Mingri, the founder of Zion Church, was detained and could face up to seven years in jail for continuing to lead the underground church.
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Why China’s crackdown on underground church pastors has irked the US
Chinese authorities arrested 30 pastors and church staff of Zion Church during raids across the country last week. The pastor, Jin Mingri, who founded the underground or ‘house’ church in 2007, is also among those arrested. The latest crackdown on religion has prompted criticism from the US, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for the release of the pastors
Dozens of arrests in at least six cities in what China Aid calls "the wave of persecution more extensive than the last 40 years" against the evangelical "underground" communities. Shepherd Jin Mingri, former young man in Tiananmen Square, who gave life to this community that would count thousands of faithful. Accused of illegal use of the web a few days after Xi Jinping's diktat on the need to "accelerate the synicization of religions."
China detains prominent ‘underground’ pastor in sweeping crackdown
The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors. This photo, taken on September 12, 2018, shows Jin Mingri, head pastor of the Zion church, posing in Beijing days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. Photo: Fred Dufour/AFP. Police arrested Jin Mingri, wh…
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UpstractChina detains dozens of underground church pastors in crackdown
Police in China detained dozens of pastors of one of its largest underground churches over the weekend, a church spokesperson and relatives said, in the biggest crackdown on Christians since 2018.
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