{"id":76229,"date":"2018-12-14T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76229"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:07:50","slug":"pastor-charged-with-inciting-subversion-as-china-cracks-down-on-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76229","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Pastor Charged With \u2018Inciting Subversion\u2019 as China Cracks Down on Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAn outspoken Chinese pastor and his wife face up to 15 years in prison after being charged with inciting to subvert state power, a sign that Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown on religious groups, one of the most serious in recent decades.\n\nWang Yi, 45, who runs the independent Early Rain Covenant Church in the southwestern city of Chengdu, was detained last weekend along with over 100 members of his congregation.\n\nAs of Thursday, most of the group\u2019s main leaders were still in custody and the police had sealed off the church, which occupies the floor of an office building.\n\nThe move against the church comes as the authorities have gradually constricted religious rights and sought to eliminate independent places of worship.\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/13\/world\/asia\/china-religion-crackdown.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The [Chinese] move against the church comes as the authorities have gradually constricted religious rights and sought to eliminate independent places of worship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cxYT3D7wFk\">https:\/\/t.co\/cxYT3D7wFk<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Kimberly Thornbury (@Kthornbury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kthornbury\/status\/1073543324328431616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outspoken Chinese pastor and his wife face up to 15 years in prison after being charged with inciting to subvert state power, a sign that Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown on religious groups, one of the most serious<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76229\">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":[502,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229","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=76229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76265,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions\/76265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}