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China has made headlines in its efforts to clean smog from Beijing’s Olympic skies, but word is leaking out that the government is also making efforts to clean Christians out of the streets as the games draw near.

“There’s been a dramatic rise in cases of persecution that we’ve seen in the months leading up to the Olympics,” a staff writer for China Aid Association, Daniel Burton, told WND. “We’ve received reports that the government wants to eradicate the house church before the start of the Olympics.”

China Aid Association, an organization dedicated to helping persecuted Christians and founded by a man who escaped from China after being imprisoned for teaching Bible classes, maintains ties with China’s underground church. Those sources tell CAA that state police have taken up a new tactic: compelling discovered house church Christians in the Beijing area to sign a covenant promising not to meet from July 30 to Sept. 30, the time period the Olympics and Paralympics are being held in the city.

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