The Third Face of Christianity in China is seen in the Shou Wang unregistered church in Beijing. The first face of China's Church is the 3-Self Government controlled church. The second face of the Church in China is the Underground churches in the rural areas. Now in the cities along the urban coast of China, in metropolitan cities and even in Beijing have sprouted unregistered urban churches meeting in offices and condos. This is the latest phenomenon the Christianity growing in China among the upper class of mobile urban professionals including doctors, lawyers, professors, computer savy executives and business entrepreneurs. One such church is the Shou Wang unregistered church meeting in an apartment in the central business district of Beijing. The authorities had kept a closed eye on such churches until lately when they closed down the apartment where the Shou Wang church used to meet. This Easter Sunday this church wanted to meet in a public place but found the proposed place cordoned off by the police. The police then loaded some of these believers on to a bus and took them away. Something like what happened to the famous artist activist Wei Wei.
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