Chinese House Christians Arrested on Easter Holiday

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Religious freedom has been dealt another blow in China. Dozens of house Christians were arrested on Sunday in Beijing, while attempting to gather for Easter prayer. The arrests seem to be part of a concerted crackdown on Christians who do not worship in churches sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. Here's that story.

For millions of Chinese Christians across China, Easter went off without a hitch. But for those who do not worship in churches administrated by the Chinese Communist Party, it was a different story.

In a northwest suburb of Beijing, dozens of members of the Shouwang Church showed up at an outdoor location to begin Easter services. The police were already waiting for them and quickly herded the Christians onto police buses.

The Shouwang Church had called for outdoor services after they were evicted from their prior location during a CCP-led anti dissent campaign.

Church leaders say they have no political agenda and are being targeted because they refuse to worship at CCP-sanctioned churches.

Head of the Texas-based China Aid Association, Bob Fu says the crackdown is not limited to this group in Beijing.

[Bob Fu, China Aid Association]:
"There is a very large house church, more than 1500 church members at Hohhot Inner Mongolia. They were also under crackdown. At least more than a dozen of the leaders are now under criminal detention."

Mr. Fu also mentioned prominent house Christian leaders were detained in Guangdong.

He hinted Shouwang Church members will keep showing up for outdoor mass, despite recent arrests.

[Bob Fu, China Aid Association]:
"As long as the authorities continue to crack down without returning the very guaranteed freedom to those believers, they will continue to worship outdoors no matter what pressure."

Christians in China are split between those who worship in churches controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and those who refuse to do so. "House" Christians have been targeted by the regime in recent years and have suffered numerous civil and human rights abuses.

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[westofthewoods]

My parents/grandparents grew up in communist Romania and Moldova. They are Christians. At night they gathered in each others homes and in forests to worship, after communism was abolished in the countries, Christians from all over started coming out and the numbers started growing. Although it was hard for them, I'm glad that my parents/grandparents never turned their backs to God because if they did, I would not be alive today and they would be living in poverty back in Romania and Moldova.

[TheGuilbran78]

@cariopuppetmaster

yea but at least there are still christian arent it dont matter hoe small in number we are as long we preach and win souls little by little if christianity is prohibited then it will be conduted in secret

[cariopuppetmaster]

@TheGuilbran78 what abou tokogawa iyeasu,emperor kangxi,shah sapour,ho chi minh,mustafa kemal ataturk,caliph omar,shah jahan,zangi of damacus, joesf stalin and many more

[turokdarkstar]

Almost every comment left by an atheist on this video has been against the Chinese peoples personal liberty, right to free speech and right to freedom of expression. Ironically enough, if any of you understood what "separation of church and state" means, you would understood how your speaking against that as well. Continue being good little fundamentalists and shooting yourselves in the foot. I'll pray for these people, and their rights to personal liberty.

[RonSafreed]

Hey you atheist, China needs some atheist missionary work to de-convert those ex-atheist Chinese from their Christianity. 2/3 of the Chinese&North Koreans as well are atheist. However 30000 a day convert to "you know". In 1949 when Mao&communism came, there were only 1 million "you know", now 62 years later there are 110 million. An iron-handed policy against religion has not worked. So pretty please atheist go to China Take chairman Mao's little red book with you.to replace that evil Bible.

[ThreeX]

@Deptstate799

Roman Catholic Church no the Freemason

[TheGuilbran78]

the more you persecute christians/protestant the stronger they become

all people that tried to destroy christianity have failed and ended up being defeated themselves

[richardburns1560]

我們的信心動搖的時候，但是神的信實從不

Our faith wavers sometimes, but God's faithfulness never

[mrtszhong]

@001zening

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[001zening]

Cannot believe a Chinese government 5-Mao is here also. Look at the posts...You go directly to the hell!