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05 June, 2004
05 June 20045:20 pm: Fifteen years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the BBC's Louisa Lim reports on its legacy--part of which is the growth of Christianity in an officially atheist state. One former demonstrator, Zhu Hong, credits China's repressive government for his conversion, telling Lim: "Everything you do is under surveillance...and it's basically impossible to build intimate relationships. Under these very lonely circum-stances, people need a spiritual or emotional sense of belonging." For others, Lim writes, belief--and its practice in illegal house churches--is itself "an act of defiance of state control."
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