China formally arrests 18 leaders of underground Zion Church amid religious crackdown
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Chinese authorities formally arrested 18 leaders of Zion Church, an underground Christian congregation, amid a nationwide religious crackdown.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
ChinaAid, a Christian nonprofit human rights organization, said in a statement that the leaders were arrested on "politically motivated charges."
"These pastors and co-workers are being treated as criminals simply because they faithfully shepherded a large, legally unregistered church that refused to submit to CCP control and surveillance," the statement read in part.
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