Source: Open Doors, December 17, 2018<\/p>\n
Last week, Open Doors reported that one of China\u2019s largest house churches had been raided by police resulting in arrests of more than 100 Christians<\/a>, including church leader Wang Yi, one of China\u2019s most well-known pastors.<\/p>\n Pastor Wang Yi has been charged with \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d a crime that could result in a sentence of up to five years, but up to 15 years in extreme cases.<\/p>\n Two days after he was arrested and taken away, church members released an open letter he wrote in September [with] instructions that it be publicized if he went missing for more than 48 hours.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read the full letter, The Disobedience of Faith.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb See also China Closes Megachurches Before Christmas<\/a> (Christianity Today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Open Doors, December 17, 2018 Last week, Open Doors reported that one of China\u2019s largest house churches had been raided by police resulting in arrests of more than 100 Christians, including church leader Wang Yi, one of China\u2019s most well-known pastors. Pastor Wang Yi has been charged with \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d a … Continue reading CHINA: Pastor\u2019s Powerful Letter Released after His Arrest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8249,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}