(AgapePress) - The president of an organization with a mission to tell the truth about Christian persecution in China says the recent arrest of a Chinese Christian pastor should be protested by the international community. ( I agree.)
Pastor Cai Zhuohua is on trial for illegally printing more than 200,000 Bibles and other Christian literature. He was arrested in September 2004. Jason Lee Steorts reported in National Review in January that the pastor's house was searched by police from China's Security Bureau, as was a neighboring building that housed a printing press. Two press operators were arrested along with Cai, but were later released. The pastor's trial was to have occurred last week in Beijing, says the China Aid Association.
Bob Fu is president of the Texas-based China Aid Association. He says despite its claims, China does not uphold religious freedom.
"We have seen more pastors arrested and ... put in jail, and numerous churches destroyed," Fu relates. "The persecution has been intensified. I think China's political leaders are now taking a very hard line policy against the unregistered churches."