Down at the bottom of the article: >While sermons at state-sanctioned churches are often tightly scripted, independent churches boom with searing indictments o

Down at the bottom of the article: >While sermons at state-sanctioned churches are often tightly scripted, independent churches boom with searing indictments of corrupt officials and rousing calls to protect the rights of the poor. >Early Rain, which Mr. Wang founded in 2008, was among the most daring. Mr. Wang called Mr. Xi a sinner, held prayer sessions each year to mark the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, and organized a fund to support relatives of political prisoners in China. So just good old fashioned suppression of political dissent. The fact that they were churches could be entirely irrelevant.