Members of a persecuted church in China are under pressure from an unexpected source: self-proclaimed Christians.
Shouwang Church, a large, illegal house church in Beijing, is enduring its 11th week of government persecution over its repeated attempts to hold outdoor worship services in a public square. The government pressured the church out of its rented building earlier this year.
On Sunday, June 12, Chinese authorities rounded up 14 church members attempting to meet and brought them to police stations for questioning. But this interrogation, and that of the previous Sunday, brought a disturbing new twist, according to the religious freedom monitoring organization ChinaAid. In addition to police and government interrogators, the Shouwang Church members faced representatives of China's government-approved church, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. ...
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