CHINA: 90-Year-Old Denied Baptism
(Chengdu, Sichuan Province) State security officers sieged the home of the 90-year-old father of Liu Xiaoqiong, a renowned Chengdu female human rights activist, to prevent him from receiving baptism.
State security officials dispatched police vehicles to the place the elderly man lives. Officers stake out the area 24 hours each day trying to intimidate pastors and bar them from baptizing Ms. Liu’s father. These are the same tactics they have used in Chengdu to sabotage the ministry of Early Rain Covenant Church, whose pastor, Wang Yi, was sentenced to nine years in prison last December.
The goal is to...