Seoul Sungrak Church: One of the World’s Largest Baptist Churches Banned as a “Cult” in China
China’s desire to please Korean anti-cultists, with whom it regularly cooperates, may have been a factor in the decision.
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China’s desire to please Korean anti-cultists, with whom it regularly cooperates, may have been a factor in the decision.
While the leader is serving a 16-year jail term in Korea for sexual abuse, the church is still active both in its home country and in China.
The successful international Darakbang movement based in Korea is becoming a target of Chinese Communist Party repression.
The Korea-based Good News Mission, a christian movement, is being banned in China, and its churches raided, one province after the other.
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