
Wenzhou pastor formally arrested
Distributed by ChinaAid, September, 2014 ...
WENZHOU, ZHEJIANG, CHINAA – Police in Pingyang County in the coastal Chinese city of Wenzhou formally arrested Pastor Huang Yizi of a Wenzhou-based church in late August for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” after he was initially taken into custody on Aug. 3.
Huang had been repeatedly summoned by the Pingyang County Public Security Bureau after he helped Christians at Salvation Church, also located in Pingyang County, defend their cross from forcible demolition on July 21. Church members and other local believers, including Huang, formed a human wall at Salvation Church’s gate to keep authorities out. What resulted was a bloody altercation that left 14 Christians with serious injuries ...
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