According to persecution watchdog China Aid, Zhou Yanhua and Gao Ming, both members of Yining County Church, were detained by police half an hour before taking a group of children to a summer camp.
 
Gao, a 27-year-old seminary student at Yanjing Theological Seminary, was detained for 15 days, while Zhou, the head of the church sponsoring the summer camp, received a 10-day detention after she told police that she was the organizer of the event in an attempt to free Gao.
 
Both women were accused of indoctrinating minors with superstitious beliefs; according to Chinese legislation, children under the age of 18 may not receive any religious education. The government-sanctioned Protestant church, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, specifically forbids its members from "brainwashing" teenagers with religious beliefs and bringing children to religious activities.
 
China Aid notes that Gao's status as a student at an official, government-sanctioned seminary reveals that not only house churches are at risk for government suppression.

In addition to detaining the two women, authorities took all of the children present to the police station to register their IDs. Police then called the families and school teachers of the children involved, threatening to deduct the teachers' wages or keep the students from being admitted to...
 
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