From ChinaAid: "Anhui church, government disagree over church reconstruction"

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Anhui church, government disagree over church reconstruction
Distributed by ChinaAid, October, 2015 ...

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LU'AN, ANHUI, CHINA – A government-sanctioned church in China’s coastal Anhui province took issue when authorities replaced the church’s previously demolished building with a building half the size of the original.

According to the church’s pastor, surnamed Chen, church members raised 100,000 Yuan (U.S. $15,700) during the later months of 2014 and completed construction for a meeting place on Dec. 25, 2014. In early April 2015, the three-month old structure was demolished by Lu'an authorities, who stated that the church lacked the necessary approval despite being built on privately owned land ...

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