Dong Quiyue

Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church Raided Again: 15 Detained, Including Infants

Another police action targeted a successful house church. Even small children were detained.

Leaders of Shanxi’s popular Sola Fide congregation will remain in jail for terms of up to nine years.

False accusations of “fraud” led the popular Christian leader to be hit with a record-high sentence.

Pastor Li Jie, Elder Han Xiaodong, and Elder Wan Qiang were sentenced to jail penalties for “fraud.”

Brother Li Shuangping was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison. Another nine Christians were also punished.

At a meeting in Wuhan, they were told they should devote more space to Xi Jinping and Party documents.

Members who participated at a 2022 gathering are now being detained to purge an administrative penalty that was suspended then due to COVID.

Detained since 2021, the Shanxi female Christian leader will be tried at the end of this month, unless the trial is postponed.

Her family and co-religionists are afraid that Yang Rongli may “die of natural causes” before trial.

They were jailed in 2009 and their church was dynamited in 2018. Their persecution continues.

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