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Wenzhou is known, according to CNN, as the Jerusalem of China. For months, the Government has demolished scores of churches and taken down hundreds of crosses. Church leaders in eastern China say that they are facing the worst persecution in decades.
As with all of our persecuted brothers, let us please keep them in our prayers. Those that are able to do more, please do so.
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