Chinese house church leaders attend rights defense seminar

Hong Kong, 24 June (ENInews)--Chinese house church leaders attended a
training seminar from 14-16 June in Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province in
China, to learn how to safeguard their legal rights. 

Participants included pastors and leaders from Beijing; six provinces,
including Hebei and Shangdong; and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
according to a news release from the Texas-based organization ChinaAid, which
sponsored the seminar. Attendees studied Article 36 of the Constitution of
the People's Republic of China, which relates to freedom of religion.

Rev. Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid, said that more and more churches are
"emboldened by the rights defense movement to take advantage of Chinese
laws, including constitutional ones, to safeguard their basic rights through
administrative review and litigation."