One Beijing (AP) - Chinese police said at least 30 Christians arrested include unregistered Beijing Church as the Congregation Sunday for Easter service collected, a church member.
Police held the fan of the non-registered Shouwang they gathered Church as they close a public Plaza in the University district city, then to a local police station bused. The associated press saw over a dozen people taken away, but a church Member said at least 30 were arrested.
Shouwang members have tried, meet in the Plaza in Beijing's Haidian District every Sunday since the congregation was from his usual place of worship rented up before three weeks away, but she imprisoned or under house arrest made every time.
Lu Jia, a Shouwang under house arrest from Saturday to Sunday afternoon, by telephone, said that he and his wife was half an hour instead of consulting at home with a preaching their pastor in the Internet uploaded.
"I went out before hand, and the guard tells my door, I wanted to argue, but I had to tell them, what they were doing was illegal that you violated my law to believe, practice my faith, men" Lu said. "Then we had a short service of the sermon together and read a selection from the Bible."
Lu said all pastors and leaders of the Church were under house arrest and 30 Shouwang members were arrested when they arrived the named place. Lu and others were planning to go to the police to try to negotiate their release, he said.
While China's Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, Christian Catholic Patriotic Association for Catholics and Protestants are required, to worship in the churches led by State-controlled companies - the three-self patriotic movement for the Chinese.
However, there are more than 60 million Christians to worship in unregistered "House" churches, compared to about 20 million in the churches believed State according to scholars and Church activists. The growth of House Churches has in recent years, speed up production of larger communities, that shine far more than the small groups of friends and neighbors, who used to worship in private homes, which gave the movement its name.
China's rulers, an independent social group have unsettled always suspicious their expansion and growing influence, which could challenge Communist authority.
Shouwang officials are members with Beijing about their right to worship for years. She said in a statement last week, that she tried, register with the Government in 2006, but were rejected.
In December 2009 that bought Church in northwestern Beijing for regular Sunday services, but government interference prevented the Group occupying the room that said statement.
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