BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in southwestern China have arrested eight members of an underground Christian church on charges of spreading "feudalistic superstition," the local religious administration said on Thursday.
The eight -- all members of a unregistered church in a village in Yunnan province's Funing County -- could be sent to labor camps after police nabbed them doing unauthorized missionary work, a county religious official said.
"They spread superstitious words to villagers twice a week and asked poor villagers to donate," he said.
Police in the backwater region near the Vietnam border have carried out sweeps of other underground practitioners in a neighboring Guangxi province in a crackdown this year, New York-based Human Rights in China said in a statement.
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