ICC Note:

A pastor in China has spent nearly a year in prison on false charges. Pastor Li Guozhi, who is known to most as Yang Hua, was taken in a raid on a house church on December 9th, 2015. He was arrested for “obstructing justice” after trying to prevent authorities from taken his computer’s hard drive. He was sentenced to a few days of “administrative detention.” One the day he was supposed to be released his wife saw him being forced into an unlicensed vehicle blindfolded. In a letter to his wife last June, the pastor told her, “Never be dejected and despondent, always look up at our Lord, and always keep the spiritual life above the chaos of the real environment.”

11/24/2016 China (Christian News) – A pastor in southwestern China, jailed for nearly a year on fabricated charges and suffering a liver disease, focuses on trusting God in a letter of encouragement to his wife, according to China Aid.

Authorities took pastor Li Guozhi, better known as Yang Hua, into custody after a raid on his church in central Guizhou Province on Dec. 9, 2015. In a Nov. 8 letter to his wife, Wang Hongwu, Pastor Yang encourages her to focus more on God than on the “noise” of humanity, according to the Texas-based advocacy organization.

“Our wonderful God, our Lord forever,” he writes. “Who can guess His wisdom and mystery? Our faith is built on His words (He never changes and never does wrong; this is the unchangeable maxim). Sometimes, somebody will decide something by guessing and then [testing their theory], but we don’t. We listen more to God and less to human beings.”

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