Read the whole news: Last August, the government of Linfen city in the northern province of Shanxi ordered to demolish the cross and the Chinese characters for “Christian Church” from a local Three-Self church. A congregation member told Bitter Winter that the church had never been used since its construction was finished in July 2018 because of a government-initiated conflict between the congregation and village residents. During the past year, the church director kept negotiating with the government, hoping to regain the right to use the church, but local officials continued shifting responsibility from one to another, repeating that “village residents do not allow believers to enter the church.” Despite the director’s several attempts to negotiate, the government continued demanding to repurpose the church and urged the congregation to remove the cross, or it would be “destroyed with explosives.” The cross was soon removed.
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