China Bans Zion, Beijing’s Biggest House Church

Shut down after Sunday services, influential congregation had refused orders to install government surveillance cameras.
Beijing authorities threatened to close Zion Church last month after the 1,500-member congregation, one of the Chinese capital’s largest house churches, refused to install surveillance cameras in its sanctuary.
After services on Sunday, officials delivered on their threat to the unofficial Protestant congregation, which meets in a renovated hall in northern Beijing. Zion