Thousands of Chinese Christians have mounted an extraordinary, round-the-clock defence of a church in a city known as the 'Jerusalem of the East' after Communist Party officials threatened to bulldoze their place of worship.
In an episode that underlines the fierce and long-standing friction between China's
officially atheist Communist Party and its rapidly growing Christian
congregation, Bible-carrying believers this week flocked to the Sanjiang
church in Wenzhou hoping to protect it from the bulldozers.
Their 24-hour guard began earlier this week when a demolition notice was
plastered onto the newly-constructed church which worshippers say cost
around 30 million yuan (£2.91 million) and almost six years to build.
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