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China Arrests Christian Leader

sermonindex May 30, 2004

----SHANGHAI, China - Police arrested a leader in China's unofficial Christian movement after raiding a church festival attended by thousands of people, an overseas monitoring group reported Tuesday. The reported arrest of Zhao Wenquan - who likely faces years in a labor camp - comes in the throes of a campaign by the nation's communist authorities against religious groups operating outside their control. Over the past year, scores of church leaders have been detained and church meeting places demolished. Activists working to expose the crackdown have been put on trial for revealing state secrets. Zhao was detained in the village of Hegou in the eastern province of Anhui on May 9 after more than 4,000 people attended the festival, a crowd ten times larger than at most church gatherings, the U.S.-based China Aid Association reported. Zhao, who is over 60, has been charged with disturbing social order and organizing an illegal religious gathering, said the group, based in Glenside, Pa. Another dozen leaders in Zhao's church are in hiding, it said.

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