Religion News in Brief

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I found this article in the Washington Post in the OnFaith Section and it drew to me because of the title "Religious New in Brief". The article discusses two major stories about religious organizations affecting the government and politics manners of the specific areas. The first one covered was Beijing and how the Protestant Church who have recently been charged and imprisoned and the second one was on Boston and the Catholic Church. We all remember the sex-scandal that happened within the Catholic Church, in Boston the clergy is still attempting to settle the faults they have made. The Catholic Church had sold land to Boston college, in part to pay for settlements for the sexual abuse that had been caused in the area. In northern China, however, five leaders, who have been linked to the Protestant Church, have been sentenced for seven years on charges of illegal assembly, and rights groups. The sentences are among the harshest in the recent year for the congregation refuses to register and accept the authority of the government's Religious Affair Bureau. Beijing is fighting against religious powers which tend to get their way to show their people justice and illegal assembly will not be tolerated especially by leaders of the country.