Source: Worthy News, January 30, 2020<\/p>\n
China is cracking down on Christian weddings and funerals [so] believers are \u201cpersecuted even after death\u201d according to one villager in Henan province whose family was forced by the government to hold a secular funeral for his believing father.<\/p>\n
New regulations in effect on December 1 in Zheijang province ensure that \u201cclerical personnel are not allowed to participate in funerals,\u201d though a limited number of family members may sing hymns \u201cin a low voice,\u201d and restrictions are becoming even more severe elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is quite adverse, and some believers don\u2019t even dare to accompany the deceased to the graveyard,\u201d said an elder from an official Three-Self Patriotic Movement church. \u201cPastors can only sneak into believers\u2019 homes for a hurried prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the city of Wuhan, the daughter of a woman who had just died was arrested while planning her mother\u2019s funeral and released two days afterwards to ensure she was not able to attend.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb See also the much more encouraging article, Christians Bring Hope into Coronavirus Panic<\/a> (Mission Network News) and check out a dashboard tracking the Wuhan Coronavirus<\/a> (Johns Hopkins University).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Worthy News, January 30, 2020 China is cracking down on Christian weddings and funerals [so] believers are \u201cpersecuted even after death\u201d 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 … Continue reading CHINA: Crackdown on Christian Funerals<\/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-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","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=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9087,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}