
Pastor Tan Wen, Urumqi house church leader, detained again
Distributed by ChinaAid, August, 2013 ...
URUMQUI, XINJIANG, CHINA – Yesterday morning (August 4, 2013), Pastor Tan Wen was leading a worship service at Muen Church in Urumqi, Xinjiang, attended by several dozen believers. Around9:30, more than 20 police officers from Shayibake Regional Branch of the Urumqi Municipal Public Security Bureau and from the Xishan Police Station broke into the church. The officers did not show identification papers or follow other applicable procedures. Instead, they forcibly terminated the worship service and seized the Bibles, hymnals, and other books that the believers were using.
• more on this story from China Aid
No comments:
Post a Comment