China Gospel Fellowship asking for help

BEIJING — Members of China Gospel Fellowship (CGF) are asking for help from China’s communist government in their search for church leaders who were kidnapped April 19. Members of CGF suspect that a cult known as Eastern Lightning has taken hostage more than 30 of the church’s senior leaders.

In desperation, the CGF has requested that the government help them locate the abducted members, despite the fact that some of these leaders are themselves wanted by China’s Public Security Bureau. “If they arrest us and we are sent to prison, there we will still preach,” a member of CGF told Christian Aid. “This cult needs to be destroyed regardless of the risk of more government oppression on Christians.”