Growth of underground churches worrisome for China's leaders
by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2019
4 minutes
CHENGDU, China - Li Chengju glared at her prison interrogator as he pressed her to renounce her Christian church and condemn her pastor.
Her captor warned she would not be so lucky as the pastor, who was locked in secret detention but at least might get a day in court.
"Look at you. You sweep the floors at church," the interrogator said. "You think you're getting a trial like your pastor? You don't qualify."
Li still refused to sign the document disowning her church.
"I'm a citizen who has faith," she told the interrogator. "God knows everything you are doing and he will judge you one day."
Then she
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