Another sign she held read, “Freedom, equality, justice, and integrity come from God. Let the country be held high, sin is a humiliation of the people! The kingdom of heaven is near, you should repent!”
Fellow Christians have attempted to spread news about Zhou’s work via social media, but those posts are removed quickly. She’s “becoming a well-known case among house church Christians,” notes Bitter Winter. And “there is a risk that authorities would react more harshly this time by having the activist sentenced to a long prison term.”
For years, China has been cracking down on unregistered churches. Officials in some areas even offer rewards to citizens who report “illegal religious activities.”
