China Christians sent to labour camps

[b]China Christians sent to labour camps[/b]

Police in northern China have sentenced five Christian church leaders to two years of "education through labour" after they protested against a police raid on their church, a rights group said Wednesday.

The punishments came after a Shanxi province court last week sentenced five other leaders of the same church to up to seven years in prison for trying to protect the unregistered church from demolition, said ChinaAid, a US-based Christian rights group.

"To arbitrarily send five innocent citizens to labour camps is in direct violation of international human rights covenants," the head of ChinaAid, Bob Fu, said in a statement. ...

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after they protested against a police raid on their church

The punishments came after a Shanxi province court last week sentenced five other leaders of the same church to up to seven years in prison for trying to protect the unregistered church from demolition

:-(

Sooner or later they would probably still have been arrested.

Let's say the buildings were demolished without them trying to prevent. Well the police have theeir names etc. The christians would have went somewhere else to fellowship "unregistered" The police would hunt them down there as well.

There are times when we must take certain stands. We had best be careful how we judge fellow christians when they take stands that we think are just being rebellious against the governing authority. When we think, "oh they are not walking in the Spirit as they should." etc etc.

We had best be careful how we judge fellow Christians when they take stands that we think are just being rebellious against the governing authority.