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Prominent church leader arrested

^{Pastor Zhang "Bike" Mingxuan
Photo from}^{China Aid}

According to an August 6 report from China Aid Association, Pastor Zhang "Bike" Mingxuan, President of the Chinese House Church Alliance, has been arrested along with his wife and another pastor, Wu. Pastor Zhang was on his way to deliver medicine to his ill wife when he was detained. At last report, all three were being held in a Public Security Bureau office in Zhengzhou City, Henan.

Pray for the release of these three believers. Pray that they will be a testimony to those imprisoning them. Pray for the health of Pastor Zhang's wife during her detention.

For more information on the persecution facing China's Christians, go to the China Country Report.

August 13, 2008

China Profile

Location
Asia

Population
1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)

Ethnicity (%)
Han Chinese (91.5), Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities (8.5)

Religion (%)
Non-religious (47.6), Ethnic Religions (21.8), Buddhism (21.4), Christianity (7.3), Islam (2.0)

Leader
President Hu Jintao

Government type
Communist state

Legal system
Based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles

Statistics provided by CIA World Factbook, Joshua Project and Operation World.

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