Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

South China Church / China

South China Church Leaders Sentenced

The founder of the banned South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and his niece, have been sentenced to death by a court in Jingmen City following conviction on charges including "using a cult to undermine the enforcement of law," according to the Information Center for Human rights and Democracy. The niece's sentence was suspended for two years. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison.

Seventeen other church members received sentences of from two years to life. The 50,000 member fundamentalist, evangelical church — spread over some ten provinces in eastern and central China — defied the law requiring Protestants to worship only in the state-controlled nondenominational church. At a secret trial on December 18, Gong was also convicted of complicity in rape and injuring 14 people during church rituals. Gong's niece was also charged with being the founder of the "Hunan Special Periodical," an underground Christian publication, of which a total of 500,000 copies in 48 issues were printed since it began in 1994.  The South China Church is one of 16 "underground" Christian churches identified by the Chinese government, and the leaders of two of them have already been executed. (AP, 12/30/01, Internet; BBC Monitoring Asia-Pacific-Political, 12/31/01 Internet; Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 12/31/01)

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News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

South China Church / China

South China Church Leaders Sentenced

The founder of the banned South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and his niece, have been sentenced to death by a court in Jingmen City following conviction on charges including "using a cult to undermine the enforcement of law," according to the Information Center for Human rights and Democracy. The niece's sentence was suspended for two years. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison.

Seventeen other church members received sentences of from two years to life. The 50,000 member fundamentalist, evangelical church — spread over some ten provinces in eastern and central China — defied the law requiring Protestants to worship only in the state-controlled nondenominational church. At a secret trial on December 18, Gong was also convicted of complicity in rape and injuring 14 people during church rituals. Gong's niece was also charged with being the founder of the "Hunan Special Periodical," an underground Christian publication, of which a total of 500,000 copies in 48 issues were printed since it began in 1994.  The South China Church is one of 16 "underground" Christian churches identified by the Chinese government, and the leaders of two of them have already been executed. (AP, 12/30/01, Internet; BBC Monitoring Asia-Pacific-Political, 12/31/01 Internet; Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 12/31/01)

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News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

South China Church / China

South China Church Leaders Sentenced

The founder of the banned South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and his niece, have been sentenced to death by a court in Jingmen City following conviction on charges including "using a cult to undermine the enforcement of law," according to the Information Center for Human rights and Democracy. The niece's sentence was suspended for two years. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison.

Seventeen other church members received sentences of from two years to life. The 50,000 member fundamentalist, evangelical church — spread over some ten provinces in eastern and central China — defied the law requiring Protestants to worship only in the state-controlled nondenominational church. At a secret trial on December 18, Gong was also convicted of complicity in rape and injuring 14 people during church rituals. Gong's niece was also charged with being the founder of the "Hunan Special Periodical," an underground Christian publication, of which a total of 500,000 copies in 48 issues were printed since it began in 1994.  The South China Church is one of 16 "underground" Christian churches identified by the Chinese government, and the leaders of two of them have already been executed. (AP, 12/30/01, Internet; BBC Monitoring Asia-Pacific-Political, 12/31/01 Internet; Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 12/31/01)

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News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

South China Church / China

South China Church Leaders Sentenced

The founder of the banned South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and his niece, have been sentenced to death by a court in Jingmen City following conviction on charges including "using a cult to undermine the enforcement of law," according to the Information Center for Human rights and Democracy. The niece's sentence was suspended for two years. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison.

Seventeen other church members received sentences of from two years to life. The 50,000 member fundamentalist, evangelical church — spread over some ten provinces in eastern and central China — defied the law requiring Protestants to worship only in the state-controlled nondenominational church. At a secret trial on December 18, Gong was also convicted of complicity in rape and injuring 14 people during church rituals. Gong's niece was also charged with being the founder of the "Hunan Special Periodical," an underground Christian publication, of which a total of 500,000 copies in 48 issues were printed since it began in 1994.  The South China Church is one of 16 "underground" Christian churches identified by the Chinese government, and the leaders of two of them have already been executed. (AP, 12/30/01, Internet; BBC Monitoring Asia-Pacific-Political, 12/31/01 Internet; Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 12/31/01)

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News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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Issue: archive index
  

International Cultic Studies Association
Article News Summaries

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002

News Summaries: December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002

South China Church / China

South China Church Leaders Sentenced

The founder of the banned South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and his niece, have been sentenced to death by a court in Jingmen City following conviction on charges including "using a cult to undermine the enforcement of law," according to the Information Center for Human rights and Democracy. The niece's sentence was suspended for two years. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison.

Seventeen other church members received sentences of from two years to life. The 50,000 member fundamentalist, evangelical church — spread over some ten provinces in eastern and central China — defied the law requiring Protestants to worship only in the state-controlled nondenominational church. At a secret trial on December 18, Gong was also convicted of complicity in rape and injuring 14 people during church rituals. Gong's niece was also charged with being the founder of the "Hunan Special Periodical," an underground Christian publication, of which a total of 500,000 copies in 48 issues were printed since it began in 1994.  The South China Church is one of 16 "underground" Christian churches identified by the Chinese government, and the leaders of two of them have already been executed. (AP, 12/30/01, Internet; BBC Monitoring Asia-Pacific-Political, 12/31/01 Internet; Craig S. Smith, New York Times, 12/31/01)

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News Summaries - group

News: by organization ∆* News: added: 2002 - 03.01 ∆†*News: by topic ∆‡* News: by group ^ Last, First x. Ph.D.: "Title" ∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Judge Keeps Corneaus in Jail" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aum: "New Aum, (Aleph) Leader / Japan" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Aylmer Church of God (posted 3/28/02) ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Falun Gong Hijacks TV Time " - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Falun Gong: "Foreign Protesters Detained / China" - posted: 03/28/02 ∆‡ Hare Krishna (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ House of Prayer (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Kashi Ashram (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Life Space (posted 03/28/02) ∆‡ Operation and Reconnaissance Agents (posted: 03/01/02) ∆‡ Raelians (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Rasheen Nyah Family (posted: 03/28/02) ∆‡ Scientology: "Photo Exhibit on Scientology Founder" - posted: 03/28/02

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