The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.House Church in Yili, Xinjiang Shut Down by Police & Religious Affairs Bureau
Distributed by ChinaAid, March, 2013 ...
YILI, XINJIANG, CHINA – A house church in the far western region of Xinjiang that has been meeting for 13 years has been shut down by local police and the religious affairs bureau, ChinaAid has learned.
The public security bureau and the religious affairs bureau of Yili Autonomous Prefecture, Xinyuan County, sealed up the house church's simple and crude meeting site on March 10. They also told the village chief that there was a deadline by which the meeting place had to be demolished. However, the village chief explained that he did not have the authority to do so.
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