Christmas Eve arrest in China
(Dec. 25, 2003)CAA PRESS RELEASE
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CAA Philadelphia (Dec 24, 2003)
On Christmas Eve, around 12:30pm Beijing Time, five policemen from PSB Office of Fengqiu county, Henan province raided a house church. According to a reliable source of CAA, about 100 church believers were holding a special gathering celebrating Christmas when the meeting was forced to dissolve by the police in the name of “getting rid of illegal religious gathering”. The believers were warned unless they go to the local patriotic church to have Christmas activities, they will be “punished” if they are found to continue gathering there in the future. The leader of that house church 60+ year old Li Shansong was taken away and no one knows his whereabout now. Mr Li has started that house church about four years ago. Also, a CAA source in Shandong province was informed that a special provincial level meeting was held at Weifang city by Provincial PSB and Religious Affairs offices recently. The meeting called all the law enforcement officials along with religious affairs leaders to carry out a special campaign to get rid of all the “illegal Christian gathering sites” and to confiscate and destroy all the “illegal Christian materials brought into China from overseas” including VCDs.
“What happened to this house church and their leader on Christmas Eve is heartbreaking,” says Bob Fu,” the occasion of celebration of the Prince of Peace was met with harsh arrest and disruption. This certainly is a direct contradictory with what Premier Wen Jiabao pronounced about the progress on religious freedom in China when he visited the US recently.” CAA call for the world Christian community to remember these suffering Chinese brothers and sisters at this Christmas season and asks the Chinese government to immediately release Mr Li Shansong.
May God bless China and America!
Bob Fu
China Aid Association, Inc.
P. O. Box 263,
Glenside, PA 19038 Us
TEL: +1-215-886-5210
FAX: 215-886-1668
EMAIL: info@ChinaAid.org
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