China's underground churches # 3

Despite severe persecution, Christians in China are flourishing and churches are growing. China is a great country full of history, mystery and captivating beauty. But behind the wall lies a terrible truth, a truth on which many Westerners do not know. Chinese Christians suffer unimaginable brutality and suffering for their faith. Meet the first hands of those who live and work, and sacrifice daily for their faith in Christ. Underground Christians report brutal beatings and otherTorture, including a method seemed to Christians, to put the pull the ankle of the victim, while they are forced to kneel, designed - this "Christian" torture was Liu Zhenying, one of the eight arrested in Henan in March, breaking his ankle applied. On September 24, 1996, in Tanghe, Henan, police arrested the Feng Zheng Brother, Brother Xin, Sister Li Luo and sister. According to a note smuggled from prison, the authorities bound Sister Luo's arms behind her in a painful situation, andwas beaten unconscious. One of the men died almost beaten "for nine days and nights." Group members were also due poked with electric prods cattle, and often. She was sentenced to three years in labor camps. In Sichuan the police have been arrested and fining Christians once or twice a year as a form of blackmail. If the family can not pay, the police beat the detainee, sometimes while he is suspended from the ceiling. Often this is expressed in the presence of non-Family ...