From: (Sylvia Genders LeReverend)

Subject: Religious Persecution and Execution in China

Dear Mr. President:

Reliable sources in China have informed International
Christian Concern

that the Chinese government has ordered the execution
of China’s most

prominent Christian house-church leaders. Xu Yong
Ze could be executed at

any time soon, according to the source.

Pastor Xu was arrested in Zhengzhou, Henan province
on March 16th along

with 16 other popular house-church leaders. The eight
were arrested after

having met together to discuss uniting their house
churches. Pastor Xu’s

church network Cong Sheng (Born Again) is estimated
to be over eight

million in number. The merger would have created
the largest organized body

of Christians in China.

The names of the other seven arrested in March are:
Liu Zhenying, Wang

Xincai, Wang Baoquan, Fang Xian, Mui Sheng, Ging
Jing, and Elder Qiao. The

fate of these seven is unknown.

The Born Again House Church is considered a "heresy"
by the Chinese

government. In the government’s "strike hard"
campaign against crime, the

illegal house churches are being targeted because
of their rapid growth and

evangelistic fervor.

Pastor Xu Yong Ze had been imprisoned three times.
He has been in hiding

since 1991 following his release from his last prison
sentence. His last

arrest occurred in 1991 following an attempt to meet
with evangelist Billy

Graham.

Since you, Mr. Clinton, are expected to decide this
month whether or not

China should continue to receive Most Favored Nation
trading privileges, I

wish you to know my outrage that you would consider
this while China has

such contempt for the principles we embrace in our
Constitution. I would

also ask, on behalf of your Christian constituents,
that you withhold any

further trade negotiations with China until this
concern is addressed to

the satisfaction of any Christian American.