China detains 2 leaders of prominent underground church in Sichuan as SWAT team raids service – rights group

Chinese authorities are holding two leaders of a prominent Protestant church in detention after police raided a service over the weekend, a rights group told AFP Tuesday, the latest incident in a crackdown on unofficial Christian organisations.

Early Rain Covenant Church, based in southwestern Sichuan province, is one of China’s unregistered “house” or “underground” churches […] ...