China Detains Americans And House Church Leaders After Worship Service
Wednesday, 25 April
By BosNewsLife News Center

BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Four Americans and nearly two dozen Chinese house church leaders were believed to be in detention Wednesday, April 25, after they were reportedly arrested last week following a Christian worship service in China's Xinjiang province.

US-based religious rights group China Aid Association (CAA), which has close contacts with Chinese house church groups, told BosNewsLife that about 30 "major house church leaders" were detained in Akesu city on April 19 when they met with the four unidentified American believers.

While the Americans, including a senior pastor and an associate pastor, were held for "questioning in an undisclosed hotel" the Chinese pastors were forced to stay at the A Ke Su City Detention Center, CAA quoted its sources as saying. The translator for the Americans, Jinhong Li from Beijing, was apparently also still detained Wednesday, April 25. the rest