ChinaAid: "Detained Shandong believers' lawyers file application for bail"

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.

Detained Shandong believers' lawyers file application for bail
Distributed by ChinaAid, July, 2014 ...

CAO COUNTY, SHANDONG, CHINAA – everal lawyers representing believers in China’s coastal Shandong have filed applications to get their clients released on bail after officials detained the Christians on “suspicion of utilizing a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law” almost a month ago.

On June 25, government officials broke into a factory where a group of 22 Christians was practicing hymns. Of the believers, four were with their children and one woman was pregnant; they were immediately released. Several were held under administrative detention while the remainder of the group was placed under criminal detention ...

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