(Chengdu, Sichuan Province—July 20, 2021) After Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) published a prayer requests letter including the name of member “Cheng Xiangxi” (original name Cheng Zhonglin), Pingchang County national security agents seized, and forcibly transported him from his hometown. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities failed to provide any legal documents for their arrest, nor did they provide any rational reason for sentencing Brother Cheng to serve a 15-day administrative detention sentence.
In recent months, because his mother died when he was a child, and his father suffers from amnesia, Brother Cheng took care of his father in his hometown, Since his detention, Brother Cheng’s older sister commutes a long distance each day to care for their father.
~ 3:26 pm, July 07 by Cheng Xiangxi at Pingchang County
Since the CCP’s massive crackdown on Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church on December 9, 2018, authorities had forced Brother Cheng to attend Xinjin Learning Center, to reportedly “convert” his belief. Afterward, national security agents forced him to move back to his hometown. There, they detained him at a hotel for 48 days for so-called “reinforcement learning.” On November 14, 2019, Brother Cheng and Hao Guiru, also a Christian, rented an apartment with a two-year contract ending on November 13, 2020. Not long after they moved in, however, police officers harassed and threatened their landlord who ultimately evicted them from the apartment. One year later, on December 16, 2020, after Brother Cheng, Brother Hao Guiru, and Pan Fei (also a Christian) had only lived in the apartment for two weeks, their new landlord forced them to move out.
Brother Cheng, innocent and honest like a child, focuses on justice and appeals for government officials to repent and accept the gospel. Because of Brother Cheng’s Christian belief, local CCP national security agents have repeatedly targeted, harassed, and warned him…. Recently, police have again placed him in detention—not because of committing any crime, but because of the dignity and freedom that CCP authorities have trampled.
On July 16, Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church Brothers and Sisters again prayed for Brother Cheng:
~ Yubing, ChinaAid Special Correspondent
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