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The Monexus
Vol. I · No. 169
Thursday, 18 June 2026
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A Sunday-morning raid in Chengdu and the slow tightening around Chinese house churches

Two leaders of one of China's most prominent underground Protestant congregations were taken mid-service, the latest episode in a long, opaque campaign against religious organising outside state-approved channels.

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This publication treats religious-policy reporting on China with the same evidentiary standards it applies elsewhere: claims of detention sourced to wires with on-the-ground presence, official rebuttals quoted at the same weight as the Western line, and no invented names, charges, or numbers where the record is silent. The narrow, sober version of the story is the credible one.

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