{"id":51070,"date":"2015-08-05T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_cross_removals_begin_again_in_chinas_jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:29","slug":"wsj_cross_removals_begin_again_in_chinas_jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51070","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Cross Removals Begin Again in &#39;China&#39;s Jerusalem&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, authorities in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province unveiled rules severely limiting the size and placement of crosses on churches \u201d\u201d the codification of a sometimes-violent 2014 campaign that saw crosses torn from more than 300 churches in and around the city of Wenzhou, home to a large Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>The local government now appears to be enforcing the new regulations.<\/p>\n<p>As shown in the Associated Press..authorities last week dispatched demolition crews to shear off the cross that sat atop Lower Dafei Catholic Church outside Wenzhou as parishioners sang hymns in protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say we have religious freedom. Is this freedom?\u201d\u009d one congregation member, surnamed Chen, told the AP. \u201cHave we violated any national laws? We are also good Chinese citizens.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2015\/08\/05\/cross-removals-begin-again-in-chinas-jerusalem\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, authorities in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province unveiled rules severely limiting the size and placement of crosses on churches \u201d\u201d the codification of a sometimes-violent 2014 campaign that saw crosses torn from more than 300 churches in and around<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51070\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,201,502,156,168,144,114,183,184,151,108,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-church-state-issues","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51070","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=51070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}