Chinese police, national security agents, and religious affairs officials raided a church in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on April 25, just days after one of the church’s followers spoke to the U.S. State Department officials. The raid took place on Sunday morning at Shenzhen’s Trinity Gospel Harvest Church in the city’s Longgang District while a worship service was taking place that was attended by about 20 people. According to Shi Minglei’s Twitter posts, the Chinese officials did not present any legal document for their raid, and a pastor and some churchgoers could be seen on video footage questioning why the police broke the law to storm their church. Eventually, 10 people—two pastors, a clergyman, and seven churchgoers—were arrested and taken to a local police station in Shenzhen. Shi used to attend mass at the church before she and her five-year-old daughter escaped China and arrived in the United …
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