CHINA-RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY

 As part of an ongoing crackdown against 'underground' churches and religious cults, the official Global Times reported on July 22, 2015, that nine members of "Almighty God," known in Chinese as 'Quannengshen', have been jailed for between 18 months and three years in Zigui County, Hubei.. The members were convicted of “undermining the implementation of laws by making use of cult organizations.” Meanwhile, a court in Liaoning Province sentenced another five members of the group to two or three years in prison for spreading cult propaganda. "Almighty God," which claims that Jesus has been resurrected as Yang Xiangbin, wife of the cult's founder, Zhao Weishan, first appeared in the 1990s in Henan. The couple fled to the United States in September 2000.

 






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