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EIGHT IMPRISONED CHINESE CHURCH LEADERS RELEASED
KIDNAPPED PASTOR SENT TO UNKNOWN LOCATION IN HENAN PROVINCE

By Dan Wooding

Saturday, November 19, 2005

MIDLAND, TX (ANS) -- Following a news release from China Aid Association (CAA) that eight Chinese house church leaders in Henan Province had at 12pm on November 3 been arrested and imprisoned, comes news from the Midland, Texas, group that the Chinese authority released all of them at about 6am on Saturday, November 19.

None of the confiscated church property was returned. Among the eight released, Pastor Huang Hailiang (aged 40) and Pastor Wei Lin (20s) who according to China Aid Association “were tortured with their legs wounded by the interrogators on November 3.”

According to a CAA reporter on the field, all of the released are in good spirit with a thankful heart to God and to those who are praying and helping for their release.

"They feel very happy and honored because they are the blessed who are persecuted for the righteousness," said one of their church leaders interviewed by Rev. Bob Fu, the President of China Aid Association.

Meanwhile, CAA learned the kidnapped house church leader, Pastor Zhang Mingxuan, was sent from Beijing and is now detained in an unknown location in Sheqi County, Henan Province at about 8pm, November 19.

According to a reliable source, the action to remove pastor Zhang from Beijing is to prevent him from having any meeting with the visiting US President George W Bush. President Bush has arrived Beijing on November 19 for a 40 hours state visit. He is expected to send a strong message to Chinese Communist leaders for advancing religious freedom in China.

China Aid Association, established in 2002, is a non-profit Christian organization with a mission to explore the truth, to tell the truth and to preserve the truth on the issue of religious freedom in China, particularly focusing on the fate of the unofficial church.

For further information contact: Bob Fu, China Aid Association, by phone at 267-205-5210 or 432-689-6985. His e-mail address is: bobfu@ChinaAid.org.

Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Wooding is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Window on the World" and was, for ten years a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He also co-hosts three days a week a live phone-in show called "Pastor's Perspective" with Brian Brodersen which is carried on KWVE, Santa Ana, California, and other radio stations across the USA. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. danjuma1@aol.com