ICC NOTE: 30 Christians were seized by China’s religious affairs bureau during a worship service in early July. Yet another fine example of how China believes Christianity to be a national security threat to communist rule. With the recent revelation that they believe the G20 Summit would be safer if churches were closed, one has to wonder when will the west begin to adequately chastise China for its porous human rights and religious freedom records.

7/29/2016 Guangdong, China (China Aid) – Government personnel in China’s southern Guangdong province seized 30 members of a house church in early July and took them to a local station for interrogation.

On the morning of July 10, officials from the religious affairs bureau and police department interrupted Olive Tree Church’s weekly worship service and took pictures of the scene. After confiscating church property, they took 30 of the congregants to the police station for questioning, sealed the church building and banned its members from meeting.

They also summoned Jiang Jianping, a church leader, and charged him with, “conducting activities in the name of a social organization without registration.” When Jiang Jianping’s mother was brought to the police station, she collapsed and was rushed to a hospital.

Authorities released most of the church members later that day, but four of them, including Jiang Jianping and Tan Xiuhong, a lawyer in England, were officially detained for four days.

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