01-21-2008, 11:40 AM
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Eight years ago, Pin Xian Xin says she was quietly introduced to an underground Christian church in the suburbs of Guangzhou, a sprawling city in the bustling Pearl River Delta on the southern coast of China.
The cousin who invited her to the clandestine church, held in the home of another member, warned her against telling others because of the dim view the government held of those attending unregistered churches.
Despite the danger, she says she enjoyed the church and started attending regularly. Six months after her first visit she was baptized.
Now 32 and living near Toronto, Ms. Xin's experiences at the underground church and the legitimacy of her religious beliefs were the focus of a court challenge after the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled Ms. Xin could not be a Christian -- partly because she did not know what a "parabola" is...
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Eight years ago, Pin Xian Xin says she was quietly introduced to an underground Christian church in the suburbs of Guangzhou, a sprawling city in the bustling Pearl River Delta on the southern coast of China.
The cousin who invited her to the clandestine church, held in the home of another member, warned her against telling others because of the dim view the government held of those attending unregistered churches.
Despite the danger, she says she enjoyed the church and started attending regularly. Six months after her first visit she was baptized.
Now 32 and living near Toronto, Ms. Xin's experiences at the underground church and the legitimacy of her religious beliefs were the focus of a court challenge after the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled Ms. Xin could not be a Christian -- partly because she did not know what a "parabola" is...
For the rest. click the link..
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=251797