China Bans Copying of Hymns, Punishes Christians Who Print Religious Materials

/ ucnwp-admin China Bans Copying of Hymns, Punishes Christians Who Print Religious Materials A woman wears a protective mask as she passes a church on February 8, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. The number of those who have died from the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, in China climbed to 724. China has been tightening restrictions on the distribution of religious materials in recent months by threatening fines, the closure of printing shops, or even imprisonment for selling Christian books or allowing customers to photocopy hymns. Bitter Winter , a publication that monitors religious liberty violations in China, reports…