According to Christian Today, the small church of about 50 members in Dazhou, Sichuan province, was told last month that it may no longer rent an apartment where it held religious services.

Li Shengfen, a member of the church, stated: "They looked at our Bibles. After that, in order to understand our church, they looked at our poetry. Because the place where we worship has a cross, a Bible and some scripture on the walls, they looked at it all. I said 'Right now, is this freedom of religion?' If we go to the city to meet, many of the Christians are old and some people get carsick. I said, 'How can you not give us freedom?'" ...