Beijing closes largest Christian house church for conducting illegal activities

[TaiShang]

Beijing closes Christian house church for conducting illegal activities

By Yin Han Source:Global Times Published: 2018/9/11 22:53:41


Beijing shut down the city's biggest Christian house church on Sunday for carrying out unregistered activities.

The Beijing Zion Church in Chaoyang district and its branches in the city were closed down in accordance with related regulations, according to a notice released by the Chaoyang Civil Affairs Bureau on Sunday on its website.

The house church was unregistered, and conducted activities as a social organization without approval, the bureau said.

An employee at the bureau declined to release further information when reached by the Global Times on Tuesday.

Founded in 2007 with only about 20 parishioners, the church reportedly grew into the biggest Christian house church in Beijing with hundreds of members, according to Christian Times, an online Chinese Christian news provider. House churches in China refer to those that are self-organized by Christians and are not approved by the government.

The church has two main gathering events every year, held after the Spring Festival and in May, the report said.

An association that engages in preliminary activities without any approval or carries out activities in the name of a social association without being registered "will be closed and its illegal assets would be confiscated," read China's Regulations for Registration and Management of Social Associations.

Another regulation on banning illegal civil associations released by the ministry in 2000 defines social groups that conduct activities without registration as illegal civil organizations.

Overseas media had previously reported that the church was "forced by the local government to install cameras."

However, the property management company of Long Bao Chen commercial building, where the house church used to operate in, told the Global Times on Tuesday that "any camera installed in public places is for safety reasons," and that "no official authority was involved in the installation."

"The country is ruled by law, where all social groups, including religious groups, should be brought into law-based governance," said Xiong Kunxin, a professor of ethnic studies at Minzu University of China in Beijing.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1119249.shtml

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Keep this ideological opium and tool away from masses

 

[kankan326]

Nice. Gob bless Beijing government.

 

[Jlaw]

Beijing closes Christian house church for conducting illegal activities

By Yin Han Source:Global Times Published: 2018/9/11 22:53:41


Beijing shut down the city's biggest Christian house church on Sunday for carrying out unregistered activities.

The Beijing Zion Church in Chaoyang district and its branches in the city were closed down in accordance with related regulations, according to a notice released by the Chaoyang Civil Affairs Bureau on Sunday on its website.

The house church was unregistered, and conducted activities as a social organization without approval, the bureau said.

An employee at the bureau declined to release further information when reached by the Global Times on Tuesday.

Founded in 2007 with only about 20 parishioners, the church reportedly grew into the biggest Christian house church in Beijing with hundreds of members, according to Christian Times, an online Chinese Christian news provider. House churches in China refer to those that are self-organized by Christians and are not approved by the government.

The church has two main gathering events every year, held after the Spring Festival and in May, the report said.

An association that engages in preliminary activities without any approval or carries out activities in the name of a social association without being registered "will be closed and its illegal assets would be confiscated," read China's Regulations for Registration and Management of Social Associations.

Another regulation on banning illegal civil associations released by the ministry in 2000 defines social groups that conduct activities without registration as illegal civil organizations.

Overseas media had previously reported that the church was "forced by the local government to install cameras."

However, the property management company of Long Bao Chen commercial building, where the house church used to operate in, told the Global Times on Tuesday that "any camera installed in public places is for safety reasons," and that "no official authority was involved in the installation."

"The country is ruled by law, where all social groups, including religious groups, should be brought into law-based governance," said Xiong Kunxin, a professor of ethnic studies at Minzu University of China in Beijing.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1119249.shtml

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Keep this ideological opium and tool away from masses

Wow, communist China allow Zionist church to operate in her soil.

 

[oprih]

Nice, prepare for the westerners and their lapdogs to flood the internet with their tears lol.

 

[dy1022]

Closing them all. no matter Wahhabi or Zionist, all the same sh!t

 

[TaiShang]

When it comes to internal matters, China gives zero heed to what other preach.

This is a practical evidence.

What appears to be a sea-storm in Western media does not even move hairs in China.

 

[Sam.]

Good job.

 

[haidian]

Some Christians aggressively preach their belief to whoever they meet, that's very annoying.

 

[qwerrty]

Some Christians aggressively preach their belief to whoever they meet, that's very annoying.

meet them all the time at train station. just tell 'em that your religion is islam and they will fu*koff immediately. if you tell em that you're buddhist or don't believe in any magic man in the sky, they'll preach to you nonstop and follow you around..

 

[Solomon2]

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 / 11:12 PM / 4 DAYS AGO
China outlaws large underground Protestant church in Beijing

Christian Shepherd
3 MIN READ

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing city authorities have banned one of the largest unofficial Protestant churches in the city and confiscated “illegal promotional materials”, amid a deepening crackdown on China’s “underground” churches.

FILE PHOTO: The head pastor of the Zion church in Beijing Jin Mingri poses for picures in the lobby of the unofficial Protestant "house" church in Beijing, China, August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

The Zion church had for years operated with relative freedoms, hosting hundreds of worshippers every weekend in an expansive specially renovated hall in north Beijing.

But since April, after they rejected requests from authorities to install closed-circuit television cameras in the building, the church has faced growing pressure from the authorities and has been threatened with eviction.

On Sunday, the Beijing Chaoyang district civil affairs bureau said that by organizing events without registering, the church was breaking rules forbidding mass gatherings and were now “legally banned” and its “illegal promotional material” had been confiscated, according to images of the notice sent to Reuters late on Sunday and confirmed by churchgoers.

“I fear that there is no way for us to resolve this issue with the authorities,” Zion’s Pastor Jin Mingri told Reuters.

FILE PHOTO: The head pastor of the Zion church in Beijing Jin Mingri poses for picures in the congregation hall of the unofficial Protestant "house" church in Beijing, China, August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

China’s religious affairs and civil affairs bureaux did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

China’s constitution guarantees religious freedom, but since President Xi Jinping took office six years ago the government has tightened restrictions on religions seen as a challenge to the authority of the ruling Communist Party.

Churches across China have faced new waves of harassment and pressure to register since a new set of regulations to govern religious affairs in China came into effect in February and heightened punishments for unofficial churches.

In July, more than 30 of Beijing’s hundreds of underground Protestant churches took the rare step of releasing a joint statement complaining of “unceasing interference” and the “assault and obstruction” of regular activities of believers since the new regulations came into effect.

China’s Christian believers are split between those who attend unofficial “house” or “underground” churches and those who attend government-sanctioned places of worship.

Churchgoers were also given a notice from the district religious affairs bureau saying that the “great masses of believer must respect the rules and regulations and attend events in legally registered places of religious activity”.

Zion’s attendees were also given pamphlets of officially sanctioned churches that they might attend instead.

But for many worshippers and pastors, such as Jin, accepting the oversight and ultimate authority of the Communist Party would be a betrayal of their faith.

“On this land, the only one we can trust in is God,” Jin said.

 

[Zsari]

China’s constitution guarantees religious freedom, but since President Xi Jinping took office six years ago the government has tightened restrictions on religions seen as a challenge to the authority of the ruling Communist Party.

What's missing is the second party of the article 36 of the Chinese constitution on religious freedom.

The State protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the State. (*jihadists)

Religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination. (*catholicism & wahhabism)

 

[maximuswarrior]

Well done China. Nothing but spying missionaries.

 

[Kyle Sun]

Please come to my city and shut down all those fking annoying churches here.

 

[TaiShang]

Please come to my city and shut down all those fking annoying churches here.

Taipei is infested with them, too. Just a few old people attend and I do not know how they manage to finance the rent and other stuff.

I bet their funding comes from overseas, which should be illegal.

Luckily, Mainland China is more vigilant to the cancerous political/missionary religions.

meet them all the time at train station. just tell 'em that your religion is islam and they will fu*koff immediately. if you tell em that you're buddhist or don't believe in any magic man in the sky, they'll preach to you nonstop and follow you around..

Yes, they tend to stick and keep bothering. They are trained to do so. Even their so-called help and other friendly consultations are planned and managed. Nothing is sincere in missionary religious activity.

They need to be buried alive in prison so that no one dares to preach in foreign ideology.

 

[qwerrty]

Taipei is infested with them, too. Just a few old people attend and I do not know how they manage to finance the rent and other stuff.

I bet their funding comes from overseas, which should be illegal.

Luckily, Mainland China is more vigilant to the cancerous political/missionary religions.



Yes, they tend to stick and keep bothering. They are trained to do so. Even their so-called help and other friendly consultations are planned and managed. Nothing is sincere in missionary religious activity.

They need to be buried alive in prison so that no one dares to preach in foreign ideology.

i think they get some kind of credit points to go to heaven if they can convert a nonbeliever. lol. at least they don't blow people up