Monday, January 30, 2017

From @chinaaid : "Xinjiang woman receives three-year sentence for holding Bible study"

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.

Xinjiang woman receives three-year sentence for holding Bible study
Distributed by ChinaAid, January, 2017 ...

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ILI KAZAKH AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, XINJIANG, CHINA – A local court in China’s western Xinjiang sentenced a Christian woman to three years in prison on Friday for holding a Bible study.

Ma Huichao, who was taken into police custody along with four other Christians when officials claimed their Bible study met without government approval, stood trial in mid-November for “gathering a crowd to disturb public order." ...

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