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China Cracks Down on Hong Kong Evangelists

On July 1, Hong Kong-based Lutheran pastor Philip Woo was called to the religious affairs bureau in Shenzhen for his role in organizing training gatherings for mainland church leaders. Woo’s summons to Shenzhen came on the same day that China enacted a controversial new state security law, which worried many in Hong Kong for language it contained holding the semi-autonomous special administrative region responsible for China’s national security. The