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| 北京锡安教会圣餐礼拜 （图：锡安教会） |
面对警察的无理的骚乱，锡安教会在北京时间4月24日向会友发出简短的公告，给出一些法律的提示，以降低会友面对的压力。
锡安教会认为北京警察的做法侵犯了宪法赋予公民宗教信仰自由的权利，鼓励会友在遇到骚乱的压力时，不要慌张、平静面对。同时鼓励会友学习和了解法律常识，根据政府机关执法者身份的正当性，事由、法律法规依据、相关事项，继而有权拒绝回答或予配合，有权要求执法人员就执法行为出具相关文件，并要求会友留下执法行为的证据。
公告援引中华人民共和国宪法36条规定：公民有宗教信仰自由，称教会以上帝的准绳、宪法赋予信仰自由的权利、以及会友的安全为基点，将采取一切合理合法方式（包括法律途径）保护会友的合法权益，并提供支持。
锡安教会在公告中勉励会友，“求神保守我们勇敢的心，愿神给上帝的百姓力量，如我们越发大胆为福音做见证（腓一7，徒二六1-29），也让我们在这日子彼此代祷、彼此看顾、彼此相爱（来十24）。
北京锡安教会于2007年由金明日牧师等人共同创立，锡安教会是北京发展最为迅速的城市家庭教会之一。设有多语种礼拜，约有千名会友。在北京上千家城市家庭教会中，锡安教会与守望教会、复兴教会、福音教会等深具代表性，是一家采取公开化策略，以城市中产阶级为主体的福音派教会。金明日牧师是推动新兴城市家庭教会走向公开化的牧者之一。
据观察分析，北京当局给锡安教会会友各种难以承负的压力，加大力度打压锡安教会，预示城市家庭教会将成为当局瓦解摧毁的目标。
英文翻译
Zion Church Congregants under Investigation, Church Safeguards Their Rights
(Beijing, April 25, 2018) Suppression has escalated since Zion Church in Beijing was forced to install surveillance cameras inside and out by government on April 16. This has been anticipated. In the past week congregants of the church have been called and spied by police, civil servants and MSS, who questioned their relationship with Zion Church and investigated their housing situations, ID, occupation and details about their families. Some of the congregants mentioned above felt threatened to a degree.
Confronting the harassment, Zion Church sent a brief announcement to congregants on April 24 including some law rules and regulations in order to reduce their stress.
Zion Church thinks that Beijing police has violated citizens’ right of freedom of religion granted by Constitution and encourages congregants to calm down and not panic when encountering harassment. Meanwhile, the church points out that congregants need be equipped with basic law knowledge including who can investigate them, why and by what rules and regulation, so that they know they have the right to decline or cooperate with investigators, ask them to show official documents and keep the receipt issued by police.
Item 36 in Constitution of the People’s Republic of China was quoted in the announcement by the church: “Citizen have the right of freedom of religion.”Zion Church will take every reasonable and lawful means to safeguard congregants’rights and support them per Bible, Constitution and congregants’ safety and security.
Zion Church motivated congregants in the announcement, “May God help us be strong and courageous, may God grant us strength and faith, so we are bold to testify the gospel (Philippians 1:7; Acts 26: 1-29), and love, pray and care for each other (Hebrews 10:24).
Beijing Zion Church, founded by Pastor Jin Mingri and others in 2007, has been one of urban house churches developing rapidly in Beijing. It has services of multiple languages and congregants number more than 1,000. Zion Church plus Shouwang Church, Revival Church and Gospel Church is representative of hundreds of city house churches in Beijing. It, as an evangelical church, targets the middle class in the city by employing public strategies. Pastor Jin Mingri is one of pastors advocating for the publicity of city house churches.
According to observation and analysis, Beijing authorities have harassed Zion Church congregants beyond what they can stand and severely repressed the church, which implies that government’s goal is to sabotage city house churches.
北京锡安教会于2007年由金明日牧师等人共同创立，锡安教会是北京发展最为迅速的城市家庭教会之一。设有多语种礼拜，约有千名会友。在北京上千家城市家庭教会中，锡安教会与守望教会、复兴教会、福音教会等深具代表性，是一家采取公开化策略，以城市中产阶级为主体的福音派教会。金明日牧师是推动新兴城市家庭教会走向公开化的牧者之一。
据观察分析，北京当局给锡安教会会友各种难以承负的压力，加大力度打压锡安教会，预示城市家庭教会将成为当局瓦解摧毁的目标。
英文翻译
Zion Church Congregants under Investigation, Church Safeguards Their Rights
(Beijing, April 25, 2018) Suppression has escalated since Zion Church in Beijing was forced to install surveillance cameras inside and out by government on April 16. This has been anticipated. In the past week congregants of the church have been called and spied by police, civil servants and MSS, who questioned their relationship with Zion Church and investigated their housing situations, ID, occupation and details about their families. Some of the congregants mentioned above felt threatened to a degree.
Confronting the harassment, Zion Church sent a brief announcement to congregants on April 24 including some law rules and regulations in order to reduce their stress.
Zion Church thinks that Beijing police has violated citizens’ right of freedom of religion granted by Constitution and encourages congregants to calm down and not panic when encountering harassment. Meanwhile, the church points out that congregants need be equipped with basic law knowledge including who can investigate them, why and by what rules and regulation, so that they know they have the right to decline or cooperate with investigators, ask them to show official documents and keep the receipt issued by police.
Item 36 in Constitution of the People’s Republic of China was quoted in the announcement by the church: “Citizen have the right of freedom of religion.”Zion Church will take every reasonable and lawful means to safeguard congregants’rights and support them per Bible, Constitution and congregants’ safety and security.
Zion Church motivated congregants in the announcement, “May God help us be strong and courageous, may God grant us strength and faith, so we are bold to testify the gospel (Philippians 1:7; Acts 26: 1-29), and love, pray and care for each other (Hebrews 10:24).
Beijing Zion Church, founded by Pastor Jin Mingri and others in 2007, has been one of urban house churches developing rapidly in Beijing. It has services of multiple languages and congregants number more than 1,000. Zion Church plus Shouwang Church, Revival Church and Gospel Church is representative of hundreds of city house churches in Beijing. It, as an evangelical church, targets the middle class in the city by employing public strategies. Pastor Jin Mingri is one of pastors advocating for the publicity of city house churches.
According to observation and analysis, Beijing authorities have harassed Zion Church congregants beyond what they can stand and severely repressed the church, which implies that government’s goal is to sabotage city house churches.