A man stands in a room in a house church in Puyang, in China s central Henan province on August 13, 2018. | GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images
Amid an ongoing crackdown on Christians and their churches, communist authorities in China have arrested an elder of a house church in southwestern Guizhou province in a trumped-up fraud case, according to reports.
Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church in Guiyang, was arrested “on suspicion of fraud” on May 1, the day China’s new administrative measures on religious clergy went into effect, the United Kingdom-based nonprofit Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.
In its newsletter, the house church decried the arrest as a “serious trampling on the Christian faith.”
A man stands in a room in a house church in Puyang, in China s central Henan province on August 13, 2018. | GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images
Amid an ongoing crackdown on Christians and their churches, communist authorities in China have arrested an elder of a house church in southwestern Guizhou province in a trumped-up fraud case, according to reports.
Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church in Guiyang, was arrested “on suspicion of fraud” on May 1, the day China’s new administrative measures on religious clergy went into effect, the United Kingdom-based nonprofit Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.
In its newsletter, the house church decried the arrest as a “serious trampling on the Christian faith.”