{"id":6934,"date":"2011-09-08T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:00:18","slug":"little-churchs-members-try-to-slip-past-police-to-support-beseiged-beijing-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/little-churchs-members-try-to-slip-past-police-to-support-beseiged-beijing-christians","title":{"rendered":"Little church&#8217;s members try to slip past police to support beseiged Beijing Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of a small suburban &#8220;house church&#8221; got up at 4 a.m. Sunday hoping to slip past police\u00a0and worship Jesus with\u00a0beseiged believers from the 1,000-member Shouwang Church in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>However, police were out in force and caught the five &#8212;\u00a0took them to jail, interrogated them and attempted to get them to sign statements &#8220;repenting&#8221; of their support of the Beijing\u00a0congregation.<\/p>\n<p>Each weekend for 22 weeks now, teams of police officers have stood outside church leaders&#8217; homes much of the weekend &#8212; barring the pastors and staff\u00a0from leaving home. Other policemen ring\u00a0a park that the church has designated as a meeting place, removing anybody who begins reading a Bible, singing hymns with others or playing DVDs of sermons.<\/p>\n<p>The park was chosen by Shouwang Church leadership after police blocked the congregation from renting any indoor facilities or taking possession a property purchased by the church for $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>So this Sunday, five members of a small &#8220;house church&#8221; in Fangshan, Hebei township, outside of Beijing, attempted to show their solidarity with Shouwang&#8217;s members. They\u00a0woke at 4 a.m. and traveled for two hours to\u00a0the\u00a0park in Beijing, hoping to worship with members of the embattled congregation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/pray_for_the_persecuted_church\/?p=1076\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of a small suburban &#8220;house church&#8221; got up at 4 a.m. Sunday hoping to slip past police\u00a0and worship Jesus with\u00a0beseiged believers from the 1,000-member Shouwang Church in Beijing. 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