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CHINA – Officials beat pastor's wife
The wife of a church leader was beaten by officials at her home after they had summoned her husband for questioning.
Police went to the home of Mrs Li in Shenyang, in the north-eastern Liaoning province, last Wednesday while her husband was out. When she asked to see their warrant, they began to beat her, binding her hands and feet with tape and videoing the attack. Officers later threatened to bar her son from local schools and force the family's landlord to evict them. Mrs Li's ID card had been confiscated the previous day.
Her husband, Pastor Wang Zhongliang, had been summoned to meet with the Shenyang Domestic Security Protection Squad the day after to discuss the distribution of religious flyers.
On Sunday, in China's south-western Yunnan province, officials attempted to stop a church service at Meng'En House Church. The pastor, Zhu Hewen, continued, undeterred. He was ordered to report to the Pu'er Religious Affairs Bureau the next day about the number of university students who attended the service.
Please pray now for God's protection for all our brothers and sisters in China. Pray that God will heal Mrs Li and protect her whole family. Thank God for the courage of Pastor Zhu in continuing with his worship service: pray that God will strengthen the faith of Zhu's congregation so it can stand firm in the face of persecution.
(Source: China Aid)
For a country profile about China, click here.
NEWS UPDATE: Please continue to pray for two South Sudanese pastors facing the death penalty in Sudan: their next court hearing has been adjourned until June 15. Prosecutors have reportedly been given more time to 'search for evidence' against Yat Michael and Peter Yein Reith. The charges against them – which include spying and 'waging war against the state' – appear to be linked to their encouragement of a Khartoum church embroiled in a land dispute with the Government (Prayer Alert, May 12). (Source: Morning Star News)
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Farshid Fathi has just had an additional one-year sentence upheld on appeal. He was already serving a six-year sentence before receiving the additional term in December, following the discovery of alcohol in a raid on Evin Prison. Farshid strongly denies the claim that the alcohol was his. He and fellow Christian Alireza Sayyedian (see Prayer Alert, April 3, 2014) have been transferred to a part of Rajai Shahr Prison reserved for hardened criminals. Pray for their protection. (Source: MEC)
The wife of a church leader was beaten by officials at her home after they had summoned her husband for questioning.
Police went to the home of Mrs Li in Shenyang, in the north-eastern Liaoning province, last Wednesday while her husband was out. When she asked to see their warrant, they began to beat her, binding her hands and feet with tape and videoing the attack. Officers later threatened to bar her son from local schools and force the family's landlord to evict them. Mrs Li's ID card had been confiscated the previous day.
Her husband, Pastor Wang Zhongliang, had been summoned to meet with the Shenyang Domestic Security Protection Squad the day after to discuss the distribution of religious flyers.
On Sunday, in China's south-western Yunnan province, officials attempted to stop a church service at Meng'En House Church. The pastor, Zhu Hewen, continued, undeterred. He was ordered to report to the Pu'er Religious Affairs Bureau the next day about the number of university students who attended the service.
Please pray now for God's protection for all our brothers and sisters in China. Pray that God will heal Mrs Li and protect her whole family. Thank God for the courage of Pastor Zhu in continuing with his worship service: pray that God will strengthen the faith of Zhu's congregation so it can stand firm in the face of persecution.
(Source: China Aid)
For a country profile about China, click here.
NEWS UPDATE: Please continue to pray for two South Sudanese pastors facing the death penalty in Sudan: their next court hearing has been adjourned until June 15. Prosecutors have reportedly been given more time to 'search for evidence' against Yat Michael and Peter Yein Reith. The charges against them – which include spying and 'waging war against the state' – appear to be linked to their encouragement of a Khartoum church embroiled in a land dispute with the Government (Prayer Alert, May 12). (Source: Morning Star News)
Imprisoned Iranian pastor Farshid Fathi has just had an additional one-year sentence upheld on appeal. He was already serving a six-year sentence before receiving the additional term in December, following the discovery of alcohol in a raid on Evin Prison. Farshid strongly denies the claim that the alcohol was his. He and fellow Christian Alireza Sayyedian (see Prayer Alert, April 3, 2014) have been transferred to a part of Rajai Shahr Prison reserved for hardened criminals. Pray for their protection. (Source: MEC)
