China ramps up campaign against online church services
Having discovered that more and more people were trying to organize religious activities online, the Two Chinese Christian Councils of Shandong Province issued a notice on February 23, demanding all churches in the province to stop live-streaming their services immediately.
On February 28, the United Front Work Department of the Nanhu district in Jiaxing, a prefecture-level city in the eastern province of Zhejiang, issued a notice, demanding to investigate online preaching activities in all state-run religious venues. As per the order, all live-streaming had to be stopped within one week, and WeChat audio broadcasts immediately after the epidemic was ended....