Chinese “House” Church Seeks To Sue Government

From Reuters:

A “house” church in China is seeking to sue a local religious affairs authority for shutting down a service in what activists called a breakthrough challenge.

The Qiyu Blessings Church in the southwest province of Sichuan is one of thousands of once-banned self-organised Christian groups the ruling Communist Party warily tolerates as it encourages believers to join larger state-sanctioned churches.

The church leader now wants to take the Shuangliu County Bureau of Religious Affairs to court for stopping a service in early May, the New York-based group Human Rights in China reported in an email on Friday.

Read also Chengdu House Church Files First Suit in China Against Government Religious Authority from Human Rights in China.

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