Source: Worthy News, January 30, 2020
China is cracking down on Christian weddings and funerals [so] believers are “persecuted even after death” according to one villager in Henan province whose family was forced by the government to hold a secular funeral for his believing father.
New regulations in effect on December 1 in Zheijang province ensure that “clerical personnel are not allowed to participate in funerals,” though a limited number of family members may sing hymns “in a low voice,” and restrictions are becoming even more severe elsewhere.
“The situation is quite adverse, and some believers don’t even dare to accompany the deceased to the graveyard,” said an elder from an official Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. “Pastors can only sneak into believers’ homes for a hurried prayer.”
In the city of Wuhan, the daughter of a woman who had just died was arrested while planning her mother’s funeral and released two days afterwards to ensure she was not able to attend.
» See also the much more encouraging article, Christians Bring Hope into Coronavirus Panic (Mission Network News) and check out a dashboard tracking the Wuhan Coronavirus (Johns Hopkins University).