Underground Ministry Leader Becomes Latest Target in Nationwide Religious Suppression Campaign
A well-known pastor in Beijing has been arrested by Chinese police in Beijing. Lately, the government has been trying harder to control Christian groups that don’t have official approval. This pastor’s arrest is part of a bigger trend of leaders of house churches. These are independent, unregistered churches.
These groups have been dealing with more and more pressure for years as the government tries to control religious expression. While religious freedom supporters say these recent arrests seem very well planned. Although many think the government wants to get rid of these underground Christian networks Despite these challenges, house churches have been quietly growing in China, operating kind of outside the law.
But now, they’re facing one of their biggest challenges yet. This very pastor arrested in Beijing was in charge of one of the city’s biggest independent churches, which had hundreds of people attending each week. His arrest is part of a worrying pattern of the government taking out important church people from their communities. International human rights groups are not happy and say these actions break international laws about religious freedom.
A lot of people are saying that this crackdown is a targeted attack on the church. Because of this, people in these churches now have to make hard choices: keep practicing their religion even with more surveillance and legal risks, or stop.
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