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...fact, Lai's books weren't the kind of Bibles the People's Republic condones. His New Testament Recovery version, unlike the text officially sanctioned in China, contains footnotes that try to explain particularly tricky parts of the scriptures. By using Lai's edition, underground evangelical worshippers can further their understanding of Christianity without the aid of preachers. That might sound innocuous enough, but not in the Chinese context. If you want to study the Bible in China, you are supposed to do so through either the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement or the Catholic Patriotic Association, which follow state...
...been deported for their secret work, Lai could face the death penalty for smuggling "cult publications" and will be up for trial as early as this week. In a worrisome precedent set last month, leaders of a Protestant denomination similar to Lai's were sentenced to death for holding underground meetings. Last fall, more than a dozen secret churches in eastern China were razed, leaving piles of rubble and crucifixes scattered throughout Fujian and Jiangsu provinces...
Neighborhood residents north of the Yard expressed their reservations about Harvard’s plans to build a 730-spot underground garage and tear down the University’s aboveground particle accelerator, or cyclotron, at a community meeting last night...
...would obviously like to be in the center of everything, but location is just one consideration,” Riley said. He cited other needs such as an underground garage and facilities to store contraband as issues the Harvard Real Estate Department had to consider in its search for a new location for HUPD...
...friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue pooches on chopsticks, and they...