China sentences Linfen Covenant Home Church leaders, members to prison
Three leaders of the Linfen Covenant Home Church in China's Shanxi Province have been sentenced to prison on fraud charges in a closed-door proceeding.
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9 Christians imprisoned, fined over $100K for distributing Bibles in China
Nine Christians were imprisoned in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region located in the northern part of China, for distributing Bibles, with sentences ranging from one to nearly five years and fines as high as 1 million yuan ($137,000).
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China has banned foreign missionaries from preaching and establishing religious organizations, justifying the move as necessary for national security.
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Thirty-seven years ago, Christian evangelist Billy Graham traveled to China, his wife Ruth's birthplace, for the first time.
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