(Fox News) Authorities in China raided a government-run church in June, beat members and demolished the building, ending a seven-year standoff, a persecution watchdog tells Fox News.
Officials from the Zhengzhou High-Tech District’s Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau allegedly stormed into Sunzhuang Church in Henan province on June 12, U.S.-based ChinaAid reports.
More than 200 Chinese Communist Party officials from different departments brought cranes and heavy-duty machinery and removed chairs and other church property. One church member was taken into custody and two women were beaten and hospitalized after resisting, according to ChinaAid.