February 19, 2013|12:07 pm
China's Christians felt a noticeable rise in persecution
in 2012 as the Communist government began the first of a three-phase
plan to eradicate unregistered house churches, a new report says.
Cases of persecution of Christians rose by about 42 percent last year compared with 2011, according to the report by
human rights
group China Aid. With the number of persecuted Christians rising by
roughly 14 percent and detentions by nearly 12 percent, overall
persecution was about 13 percent worse than in 2011 – though China Aid termed its statistics just "the tip of the iceberg."
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