We are a coordinating body and a serving body, not a centralized structure. We receive many requests from provincial churches to help resolve their internal disputes, but we are not able to do very much about this. If there is a rise in regionalism, it could possibly be related, to a certain extent, to what has been done by overseas organizations, consciously or unconsciously. We regularly receive reports from churches in different parts of China complaining about government interference or inadequate implementation of religious policy. But during the last six months or so, there have been far fewer reports on the violation of religious policy.
More letters speak about the internal conflicts of the church.
He told us that religious freedom was an unwavering policy of the government. Even though there were illegal activities in the name of religion, the policy of religious freedom would not change. His speech was encouraging to us. Illegal and heretical teachings are a problem in the countryside, and that is why the education of rural leadership is so important. I have just read an article written in Hong Kong on the persecution of house churches, and it contained many distortions.