Beijing House Church Activist Released

A well-known Beijing house church activist, Liu Fenggang, was released after serving three years in prison in Zhejiang. Mr. Liu, now 48, was released and returned to his home in Beijing on Febuary 5, 2007. He was arrested on October 13, 2003 and sentenced to 3 years on August 6, 2004 for “providing national intelligence to overseas organizations” by reporting a house church destruction case to overseas Christian organizations. During his imprisonment, Mr. Liu was hospitalized five times for serious heart disease and diabetes.

In 1995, before his 2003 arrest and impriosnment, Mr. Liu spent two years in a labor camp because of his work among house churches. Brother Liu expressed his gratitutude for the help he and his family received during his imprisonment. Brother Liu said,

“I am very thankful of God’s grace, my mom died during my first imprisonment in 1995 and my little son grew a lot without me during the past three years. Yet the suffering my wife and son had to endure is nothing compared to (y)our martyred brothers and sisters in China. I will contniue to stand up for this just cause for which I am called (to seak up for the persecuted).”

NOTE: Please Continue to Remember Pastor Cai!

On September 11, 2004, the - then 32-year-old - pastor was kidnapped by three plain-clothed officers believed to be from the Department of State Security at about 2:00pm. According to an eyewitness account, Cai was waiting at a bus stop when three strong men approached him and pushed him into a white van. Cai was returning home following a Bible study session that morning.

On November 8, 2005, Pastor Cai Zhuohua, a noted Beijing house church leader, was sentenced to three years in prison.

Pastor Cai Performing Baptism Prior to his Arrest