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House Church Gathering Place Shut Down, Religious Books Burned

09/04/2018Shen Xiang |

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A house church in Changsha city, Hunan Province was shut down and over 2,000 books, including copies of the Bible, were confiscated and burned by Chinese authorities.

On the morning of July 14, 2018, Wen Yu (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Changsha, a preacher and eight other believers were at a meeting reading the Bible and singing hymns when they heard loud knocking on the door. After one of them opened it, three men claiming to be from the local Religious Affairs Bureau and more than ten police officers rushed in; they photographed the assembled as well as every room and took down their personal information. During the search, more than 2,000 religious books, including Bibles and hymn books, as well as a laptop computer and a projector worth over 10,000 RMB (about 1,200 USD) were seized.

The police announced that the meeting place would be shut down. Wen Yu and four other church co-workers were taken to a local police station. According to an insider source, the police burned all the books that have been seized from the gathering place.

Reported by Shen Xiang

Tagged With: House Churches

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Shen Xiang

Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

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