Police Raid Early Rain House Church, Lock Doors To Prevent Members From Leaving – China
Police Raid Early Rain House Church, Lock Doors To Prevent Members From Leaving – China
According to a story, police in China entered the Early Rain Covenant Church during a worship session, locked up roughly 60 churchgoers inside, and then made one arrest.
The Wuhou district’s police raided the Chengdu-based ERCC on Sunday when its members were attending a worship service there in plainclothes and uniform, according to the United States-based persecution monitoring group International Christian Concern.
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The churchgoers were kept confined to the structure and only allowed to leave after showing identification. Xing Hongwei, a member, refused to abide by the authorities’ requests.
Chinese law enforcement detained Xing in retaliation and accused him of assaulting officers, according to the ICC.
Xing was detained alongside his wife, Zhao Qing, and was still in police detention as of Thursday. Xing has been recovering from meningitis for roughly a year, and he almost died.
Police Raid Early Rain House Church, Lock Doors To Prevent Members From Leaving – China
The police said ERCC was ordered to disband and the gathering was illegal.
Open Doors USA, which monitors the persecution of Christians in over 60 countries, estimates that China has more than 97 million Christians, many of whom worship in unregistered or “illegal” underground churches.
The five state-sanctioned religious groups in China are the Buddhist Association of China, the Chinese Taoist Association, the Islamic Association of China, the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
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“China’s ongoing crackdown against ERCC is the prime example of how Beijing continues to disregard religious freedom for its people even if the Constitution guarantees this right,” said Gina Goh, ICC’s regional manager for Southeast Asia.
“Since the incarceration of ERCC Pastor Wang Yi and elder Qing Derfu in 2018, the government has not ceased its harassment and persecution of the house church. The government’s goal is to see all house churches go extinct so they can fully control Christianity in China.”
Even the organizations affiliated with the five authorized religions can be subject to surveillance and limitations, the human rights group Bitter Winter has noted.
Police Raid Early Rain House Church, Lock Doors To Prevent Members From Leaving – China
ICC documented more than 100 incidents of Christian persecution in China between July 2020 and June 2021 as the country’s communist regime seeks to forcefully convert independent religious groups into mechanisms of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2018, the Chinese government banned the sale of Bibles at online bookstores across the country to comply with a “white paper” that dictated compliance with the “core values of socialism.”
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ABC News Australia reported at the time that copies of the Gospels had been removed from online retailers following the release of a regime document titled, “China’s Policies and Practices on Protecting Freedom of Religious Belief.”
The white paper declared that Chinese faith communities “should adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China’s national circumstances.”
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