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The Red Lighthouse

Engraving: five elderly people in padded jackets stand in the cold at night outside a blank concrete building, one holding a folded coat, one leaning on a cane, a single crimson scarf

Thirty Police Came for a Reading Group in Chengdu on Friday Afternoon. They Took Eleven People, Most of Them Past Sixty, One of Them With a Single Lung. The Charge, When It Came, Was Ten Days for Preaching.

Eleven Early Rain members, most past sixty, taken from a Friday reading group in Chengdu. Nine out by Saturday. Two elders got ten days, no judge, for preaching.

I Have Sat Through Funerals Where the Fight Was Over the Hymns. In a Village in Chhattisgarh the Fight Was Over Whose God Got the Body, and It Ended With Ganga Water on the Living.

I Have Sat Through Funerals Where the Fight Was Over the Hymns. In a Village in Chhattisgarh the Fight Was Over Whose God Got the Body, and It Ended With Ganga Water on the Living.

The worst argument I have witnessed at a funeral was about a hymn. One side of the family wanted the old one, the other side wanted the new one, and the pastor, wiser than any of us, had both played and let the organ absorb the grievance. Nobody's

Engraving of a lone man walking away along an empty road beside a long blank wall topped with wire, a strip of crimson cloth on the bundle under his arm

Pastor Lian Xuliang Walked Out of a Xi'an Detention Center on September 5, Four Years After the Police Took Him. Nobody Has Said Why. Nobody Has Said Whether His Father Is Still Inside.

The police came for the Church of Abundance on August 17, 2022. They took the founding pastor, Lian Changnian. They took his son Lian Xuliang, ordained the autumn before. They took a preacher named Fu Juan. Two days later the city's civil affairs bureau declared a congregation that

Everyone Will Call This the Day Washington Agreed to Pay for Worship. Read the Opinion. It Is Nearly Forty Pages About Whether a Federal Clerk May Decide What Counts as Worship.

Everyone Will Call This the Day Washington Agreed to Pay for Worship. Read the Opinion. It Is Nearly Forty Pages About Whether a Federal Clerk May Decide What Counts as Worship.

The Justice Department told HHS the old bar on spending grant money for sectarian worship, instruction or proselytization violates the Free Exercise Clause. What the opinion holds, what it concedes, and why a memo is not a ruling.

Prosecutors in Xi'an Named 235 Victims. That Accounts for 2.3 Million Yuan. The Indictment Charges Pastor Gao Quanfu With 25.5 Million and Asks for Twelve Years.

Prosecutors in Xi'an Named 235 Victims. That Accounts for 2.3 Million Yuan. The Indictment Charges Pastor Gao Quanfu With 25.5 Million and Asks for Twelve Years.

The indictment ties 2.3 million yuan to 235 named victims and names nobody for the other 23.2 million. Prosecutors want twelve years for a pastor of 69. His wife is still in detention.

I Filed Pakistan's Courts Under Lost After the Maria Shahbaz Ruling. Then a Muslim Father in Kasur Went Back to the Same Courts for His Own Daughter, and the Judgment He Won May Be the One That Protects Ours.

I Filed Pakistan's Courts Under Lost After the Maria Shahbaz Ruling. Then a Muslim Father in Kasur Went Back to the Same Courts for His Own Daughter, and the Judgment He Won May Be the One That Protects Ours.

A Muslim father in Kasur refused a clerk's empty ledger and won eleven pages from the Lahore High Court. Maria Shahbaz's lawyer says the ruling against her is no longer valid.

More Than Two Hundred Men Came for Ayilamo at Dusk. Four Policemen Died Holding Them Off, Seven Villagers Died Anyway, and the Village Says the Army Post Up the Road Never Picked Up.

More than two hundred armed men came into a Benue village on Thursday. The police met them; four died. The village says the army post nearby never answered.