{"id":16648,"date":"2009-12-13T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fast-growing_christian_churches_crushed_in_china\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:09:26","slug":"fast-growing_christian_churches_crushed_in_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16648","title":{"rendered":"Fast-growing Christian churches crushed in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China&#8217;s coal country.<\/p>\n<p>But that was before hundreds of police and hired thugs descended on the mega-church, smashing doors and windows, seizing Bibles and sending dozens of worshippers to hospitals with serious injuries, members and activists say<\/p>\n<p>Today, the church&#8217;s co-pastors are in jail. The gates to the church complex in the northern province of Shanxi are locked and a police armored personnel vehicle sits outside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_CHINA_MEGA_CHURCH?SITE=FLPLA&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China&#8217;s coal country. But that was before hundreds of police and hired thugs descended on the mega-church, smashing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16648\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}