Just two weeks before Christmas, the Chinese government yesterday arrested 29 Christians for holding an “illegal religious gathering.”
According to the China Aid Association, citing eyewitness reports, 40 law enforcement officers with eight police vehicles raided a house church leadership meeting at Xiapigang Village in China’s Henan Province. Some 100 major church leaders from Henan and Anhui were gathered at a believer’s house, discussing how the house churches could help a large group of peasants who had contracted AIDS. That area is widely known as “the AIDS Disaster Area” because many peasants became infected when they sold their blood to local blood centers contaminated with the AIDS virus.
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