ChinaAid: "Three-Self churches in Zhejiang, Anhui forced to remove crosses from roofs"

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.

Three-Self churches in Zhejiang, Anhui forced to remove crosses from roofs

Distributed by ChinaAid, February, 2014 ...

ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA – At least two Three-Self Patriotic Movement churches in China’s coastal Zhejiang province had the crosses that top their church buildings forcibly removed on Thursday because the Christian symbol was deemed “too conspicuous.”

The cross topping a government-sanctioned church in the Yuhang Disctict of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, was forcibly removed on Thursday morning by more than 200 people from the local government.

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