Christian worshippers 'detained' in China

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Al Jazeera

Police officials in China have arrested dozens of Christian worshippers from an unregistered church when they tried to pray outdoors, a rights group said.

The congregants sang hymns and said prayers as police loaded them onto waiting buses in Beijing's western Haidian district, the US-based Christian rights group China Aid said in a statement on Sunday, citing witnesses.

"The Beijing authorities have again demonstrated their total disregard of their citizens' constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to religious freedom," China Aid founder and president Bob Fu said in the statement.

Shouwang church pastor Yuan Ling said by telephone that he was unable to go to the venue because police had put him under house arrest on Saturday night. Yuan said he knew of at least six other church members who were also under house arrest.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/04/2011410105621371604.html

[WatsonT]

1. So modern in some ways

so barbaric in others.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. This is one of our favored trading partners

and we owe them billions.

So, maybe we won't be creating a no-fly zone over the christian churches in China.

:hi: