Christian leaders, including an 89-year-old bishop, took to the streets of eastern China protesting against an ‘evil’ campaign to remove crosses. They see it as a coordinated Communist party attack on their faith. Activists say more than 1,200 crosses have been stripped from churches in Zhejiang province since the government initiative began in late 2013. There has been a spike in such actions in recent weeks. Last Friday twenty Catholic clergy staged a rare public demonstration in Wenzhou (a city known as ‘the Jerusalem of the East’). A banner unfurled outside government offices by the group read, ‘Maintaining religious dignity and opposing the forced removal of crosses’. Chinese police monitored the two-hour protest but did not break it up. Authorities say they are attacking illegal building practices not religion. Meanwhile Christian Today reports, ‘Occult beliefs are on the rise among China's communist leaders.’ See: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/occult.beliefs.on.the.rise.among.chinas.communist.leaders/60412.htm