China detains two leaders of influential underground church

Teona Gherasim

An influential Protestant church in China has said two of its leaders were detained after more than dozens of congregants, including children, were rounded up for interrogation. They were midway through Sunday service in the south-western city of Jiangyou, when armed police officers stormed the room they were in, Early Rain Covenant said in a statement on Monday. Founded in 2008 in Chengdu city, the church has long been on the Chinese Communist Party's radar given how religion is tightly