SERMONS

Chinese Pastor Who Organized Human Wall
Against Church Demolition "Grateful" for Prison
Sentence

A Chinese pastor maintains that he is grateful for
the opportunity to serve a prison sentence.
Huang Yizi faces up to seven years in prison for
criticizing the government's campaign to
demolish church buildings, according to the
Christian Post.
China Aid reports Pastor Yizi gathered church
members and other believers to defend Salvation
Church by created a human wall to keep
authorities out on July 21. Fourteen people were

seriously injured that day.
On Aug. 3, police took forty-year-old Pastor
Huang Yizi of a Wenzhou-based church into
criminal detention. Aug. 28 he was arrested for
“gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.”
"He [Yizi] seems well. He is grateful that God has
given him the chance to serve time in the
detention centre," Beijing-based rights lawyer
Zhang Kai Ahaojie said.
Huang’s arrest notice is translated below:
Upon approval from Pingyang County People’s
Procuratorate, this bureau placed Huang Yizi
under arrest on August 28, 2014 on suspicion of
“gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.”
Huang Yizi is currently being detained at
Pingyang County Detention Center.