CHINA

China’s official media has confirmed that two people have been arrested after reports that about three thousand Christians in eastern China’s Zhejiang province clashed with police over the demolition of a church building for a denomination not officially recognized by the government. The acknowledgement of the arrest by the official Xinhua news agency came after the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said that up to five hundred Chinese police clashed with Protestant Christians on 29 July when authorities demolished a partially built church building. The centre said the clash left about twenty people hurt, four seriously. (Ecumenical News International)