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中國的家庭教會，也就是不願意加入政府統一思想的三自教會的中國教會正在受到更大迫害。請全世界的弟兄姐妹為正遭受迫害的兄弟姐妹懇切禱告，支持他們，求神保守，看護，堅固他們。也求神感動政府領導人的心,與教會共同尋求解決方法.神與我們同在.阿們
感謝讚美主！
Dear Pastors, brothers and sisters:
Please help to distribute the email to the congregations of all churches you know around the world. We do need deeply pray for ShouWang church. Please alway pay attention to the web www.ChinaAid.net. or www.ChinaAidorg
The congregations of our Faith Chinese Church will have fast prayer link taking turn to do fasting for every meal https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aqyri76AVBr_dHZIRFBwZC1VQ1d0MmcxZ2VUdDUwRkE&hl=en&authkey=CLuJuogJ#gid=0 which is lead by a couple Nim-on/Wai-hai. Let's pray together for the great spritual war. Thank you.
Blessings
溫哥華信友堂主任牧師洪予健及教牧團隊 敬上
Rev. Yujian HONG & the Pastoral Team
Faith Chinese Baptist Church, Vancouver
Blessings
Tel： +1-604-327-1313(church)
溫哥華浸信會信友堂網站: http://www.fcnabc.org
Faith Chinese North American Baptist Church
6858 Fraser St,Vancouver B.C.,V5X 3V1
AP report this moroning---Underground Beijing church members detained - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_on_re_as/as_china_underground_church
Underground Beijing church members detained
AP – A plain-clothes man and a uniformed police officer walk towards a police car near an area where members …
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press –Sun April 17 9:29am ET
BEIJING – Nearly 50 members of an underground Beijing church were detained Sunday and its leaders were kept under house arrest as part of a crackdown on the unregistered congregation, a U.S.-based rights group said.
Jin Tianming, pastor of the Shouwang church, was detained by Beijing police Saturday nightand released Sunday morning, Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association, a Christian rights group, said in an email.
Fu said 47 Shouwang members who tried to worship in an open-air public space on Sunday were detained and all the church's pastors and leaders were under house arrest or in detention. In an earlier statement, Fu said somechurch members had lost their homes or jobs amid an official campaign to shut down the church.
While China's Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, Christians are required to worship in churches run by state-controlled organizations, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement for Protestants and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association for Catholics.
However, more than 60 million Christians are believed to worship in unregistered "house" churches, compared to about 20 million in the state churches, according to scholars and church activists. The growth of house churches has accelerated in recent years, producing larger congregations that are far more conspicuous than the small groups of friends and neighbors that used to worship in private homes that gave the movement its name.
Their expansion and growing influence have unsettled China's rulers, always suspicious of any independent social group that could challenge Communist authority.
Shouwang members have for years been at odds with Beijing officials over their right to worship. Tensions escalated earlier this month when the church was evicted from its usual rented place of worship, a Beijing restaurant. Church leaders decided to temporarily hold services in a public space, prompting police to tape off the area and detain anyone who showed up to take part, with nearly 200 people kept at a local school for several hours.
A second attempt at open-air services in northwest Beijing's Haidian district resulted in Sunday's 47 detentions. Numerous uniformed and plainclothes police were parked near the office and shopping complex whereShouwang members were supposed to gather. An Associated Press journalist was followed and warned by plainclothes police not to conduct any interviews in the area.
A woman who answered the phone at the Haidian Public Security Bureau referred calls to the bureau's propaganda department, where the phone rang unanswered. Calls to the Beijing Public Security Bureau also were not answered.
Shouwang tried in 2006 to register with the government but its application was rejected, the church said in a statement distributed by Fu.
"Shouwang is not willing to make any compromise on the stand of our faith despite that we are willing to register with the government," the statement said. "We cannot join an official state institution."
In December 2009, the church bought property in northwest Beijing for regular Sunday services but government interference prevented the group from occupying the space, it said.
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更新：2011年4月17日北京守望教會遭受逼迫
對華援助協會 2011. 04. 17
對華援助協會獲悉，北京時間星期六（2011年4月16日）晚8點，北京守望教會的主任牧師金天明被海澱分局傳喚，次日（星期天）早8點被送回家。
根據目前的消息，星期日上午參加守望教會戶外崇拜的基督徒中，仍有47人被抓走，包括一些上周就被抓過的。另外，曉峰牧師和另一同工也被抓到派出所，其他長老仍被國保人員堵在家中。
當時在聚會地點，那些國保在大樓前，故意留了一條通道。部分教會弟兄姐妹上去後，在平台上剛剛開始唱詩歌，就被堵住全部抓走。
Saturday, April 16, 2011
UPDATE: Detained Shouwang Church Pastors Released, Believers Detained for Second Attempt at Outdoor Worship
(Beijing -- April 17, 2011) Two pastors of the Beijing house church that tried to worship outdoors last weekend were released late Saturday and early Sunday morning, but 30 members of Shouwang Church who attempted to worship Sunday morning at the same site for the second week in a row have been detained, ChinaAid has learned.
Shouwang Church's senior pastor Jin Tianming was returned home early Sunday morning, and Pastor Li Xiaobai and his wife were sent home late Saturday night. Both were taken away by police Saturday evening.
Many members of Shouwang Church were restricted to their homes Sunday morning and unable to attend Shouwang Church's second outdoor worship service this year. Of those who were able to show up again at the same outdoor worship site where they had gathered last Sunday, at least 30 have been detained.
Last Sunday, 169 church members were rounded up by police and held for up to 24 hours when they attempted to hold a worship service in a public plaza in western Beijing.
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最新消息：（溫哥華時間4月16日7:30pm收到）
小白牧師昨晚被送回家中，天明牧師今天早上被送回家了。今天多數人被堵在家裏，去的人將近30人被帶到派出所。---守望：冠輝
Subject: Fwd: In a mass police action, all of Shouwang Church's leaders detained or put under house arrest
From: bobfu@chinaaid.org
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:41:28 -0500
To: lijiao04@hotmail.com
Here are two press releases we issued for Shouwang in both Chinese and English. The WEA is drafting a statement now. ChinaAid
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金天明牧師：
不、等等，先說一句再走出來也不遲——
“撒 但，退我後邊去吧！”（太16:23）
北京守望教會的金天明牧師被海澱公安帶走
對華援助協會 2011. 04. 16
北京時間星期六（2011年4月16日）晚8點，曾在上個禮拜天因被迫在戶外聚會而遭打壓的北京守望教會，其主任牧師金天明被海澱分局傳喚帶走。李小白牧師夫婦也繼上周末被拘押兩天後，再次被公安抓走。明天星期日，守望教會將在與上周日相同的指定地點進行戶外崇拜聚會。
（圖片說明：2009年11月1日守望教會被迫在海澱公園聚會，金天明牧師在風雪中講道。11月8日繼續堅持戶外聚會，但早上9點多，金天明牧師被國保抓走，3個多小時後釋放，其餘教會負責人和信徒受阻不得進入公園，但是堅持在公園門口聚會45分鍾，之後散去。參看對華援助協會2009年11月8日的新聞：http://www.chinaaid.net/2011/04/blog-post_6547.html）
代禱事項：
明天又是主日了。大批的守望基督徒被軟禁在家，估計很多人都出不了門。為我們親愛的弟兄姊妹禱告，最近很多人受到來自政府的各種壓力。有些租房的弟兄姊妹，因政府給房東壓力，被迫搬家，不知往哪裏去（教會內弟兄姊妹會盡量互相幫助）；有些被單位解職；有人被勒令寫不參加守望教會的保證書；……求主加給大家力量！也求主憐憫在上掌權者，軟化他們的心，不要用神所賜的權柄來壓製神的百姓。
對華援助協會的負責人傅希秋牧師就金天明牧師和李小白牧師夫婦被公安帶走這一逼迫升級的事件，表示震驚和強烈的譴責。同時，迫切呼籲中國的廣大教會特別是家庭教會、世界福音派聯盟、世界範圍內的基督教會和機構，能夠同心代禱，聲援守望教會，譴責北京政府公然違反憲法和聯合國的人權公約，侵犯公民信仰自由權利的行徑。
全世界的基督徒和教會已經看到，北京守望教會並不是孤獨的，眾教會肢體正在用基督教特有的屬靈方式支持守望教會。2011年4月13日，北京教牧聯禱會 發布代禱呼籲信，號召用禁食禱告的方式支持守望教會。點擊這裏閱讀這封呼籲信。
附 1：《爭戰的本質》作者：金天明牧師
爭戰的本質
4月10號戶外敬拜中一百六十多位弟兄姊妹被關押，少則7-8小時、多則16-24小時，在被關押期間每一位弟兄姊妹經受了各種煎熬和考驗；特別是小白牧師夫婦，他們被關押了48小時，在被關押期間他們受了很多的苦，冰霞師母一直禁食禱告，他們靠著主最終經受住了考驗。
小白牧師出來時，負責談話的市國保代表領導讓他捎信息給守望治委會（包括出來後有關人員也講了大體相同的話），轉達的主要意思是這樣：① 17號無論如何守望必須回到室內；②過17號後讓現治委會下台（他們要做），重新組閣新治委會來繼續帶領守望教會，不過，下台的治委會成員以後還可以在教會中講道。
講到這裏，我必須得先說一句才能夠繼續分享下去——
“撒但，退我們後邊去吧！”
到了現在，我們無需再用更多語言說明戶外敬拜的本質問題了，也不必再疑惑，這就是一場真真實實的屬靈爭戰。魔鬼撒但借著上帝所賦予國家的政權，來拆毀上帝的教會，牠的魔爪終於顯露並已經伸向基督的教會。為此，我還是要用治委會4月10日戶外敬拜通報中的那段話來表明我對此的態度：
“我們相信，教會是基督的教會，基督是教會的頭。教會理應唯獨尊耶和華我們的主為神。除祂以外別無他神。因此，教會不當受任何外在勢力的控製或支配，而隻屬於我們的主。這次的戶外敬拜所表達的就是我們這種毫無妥協的信仰立場，而且我們認為，持守這樣的信仰立場本身就是一種敬拜。因此，我們相信我們的戶外敬拜在主麵前是蒙悅納的。”
弟兄姊妹們，這就是我不能不走出去的原因，這也是我認為教會應當走出去的原因，這更是我今天靠著主再次呼喚你們——我親愛的弟兄姊妹——無論付出多少代價，都要走出去的原因。為著主和祂自己的教會，我們一同走出去吧！
不、等等，先說一句再走出來也不遲——
“撒但，退我後邊去吧！”（太16:23）
我們不喪膽。外體雖然毀壞，內心卻一天新似一天。我們這至暫至輕的苦楚，要為我們成就極重無比永遠的榮耀。原來我們不是顧念所見的，乃是顧念所不見的，因為所見的是暫時的，所不見的是永遠的。（聖經 哥林多後書 4章16下-18節）
附2：
北京教牧聯禱會 2011年4月13日發布代禱呼籲信，號召用禁食禱告的方式支持守望教會。
以下教會已經認領了不同的禁食禱告日：
周一：錫安教會
周二：雅歌教會，葡萄園教會，果樹林教會
周三：城市複興教會，永豐教會，三一教會
周四：安華教會，載道教會，惠民教會
周五：麥子教會，愛加倍教會
周六：橄欖樹教會，明光教會
教會的人應該沒事的，過兩天就都放了。 又沒惹任何事， 有什麽理由不放人？