{"id":76014,"date":"2018-12-10T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76014"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T23:07:52","slug":"reuters-china-outlaws-large-underground-protestant-church-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76014","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) China outlaws large underground Protestant church in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Churches across China have faced new waves of harassment and pressure to register since a new set of regulations to govern religious affairs in China came into effect in February and heightened punishments for unofficial churches.<\/p>\n<p>In July, more than 30 of Beijing\u2019s hundreds of underground Protestant churches took the rare step of releasing a joint statement complaining of \u201cunceasing interference\u201d and the \u201cassault and obstruction\u201d of regular activities of believers since the new regulations came into effect.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Christian believers are split between those who attend unofficial \u201chouse\u201d or \u201cunderground\u201d churches and those who attend government-sanctioned places of worship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-religion\/china-outlaws-large-underground-protestant-church-in-beijing-idUSKCN1LQ07W\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches across China have faced new waves of harassment and pressure to register since a new set of regulations to govern religious affairs in China came into effect in February and heightened punishments for unofficial churches. In July, more than<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76014\">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":[502,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","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=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76015,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions\/76015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}