Hundreds of police and hired thugs smashed the church and seized Bibles in an earlier crackdown in 2009 that ended with church leaders receiving long prison sentences.
Source/Credit: Haaretz News / Excerpt
By The Associated Press | January 11, 2018
The church, with a congregation of more than 50,000, has long clashed with the government
Demolition underscores the long-standing tensions between religious groups and the officially atheistic Communist Party
Authorities in northern China’s coal country this week demolished a well-known Evangelical Christian mega-church, underscoring long-standing tensions between religious groups and the officially atheistic Communist Party.
Witnesses and overseas activists say paramilitary People’s Armed Police forces used excavators and dynamite on Tuesday to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province.
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