{"id":3852,"date":"2011-07-06T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:51:44","slug":"longtime-time-correspondent-blasts-chinas-savage-repression-of-1000-member-beijing-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/longtime-time-correspondent-blasts-chinas-savage-repression-of-1000-member-beijing-church","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Time correspondent blasts China’s “savage repression” of 1,000-member Beijing church"},"content":{"rendered":"

“As many American Christians are aware,”\u00a0writes former Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine Asia correspondent David Aikman,\u00a0“China\u2019s Christian house churches, those Christian communities who don\u2019t want to be controlled by the Communist Party, have been under their savage repression in years from the authorities.\u00a0 The most serious persecution has targeted the Shouwang church, the largest in Beijing.”<\/p>\n

The 1,000-member church has been targetted by the Chinese government for 13 weeks. All its leaders are under house arrest. The government has pressured employers to fire church members and for landlords to evict families of those who persist in trying to attend services. A number of members have been forced by police to leave Beijing.<\/p>\n

“Now China\u2019s Communist-controlled church organization, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is joining in the repression,” writes Aikman. “Not only are its officials showing up at police interrogations of detained house church members, they are celebrating decades of collaboration with the Communist Party. That\u2019s like the Nazi Party requiring chorales from churches in occupied wartime Europe. How sick and degraded can you get?”<\/p>\n

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