Catholic Church in Zhifang was the only Catholic church in Zhifang, a village near

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province. On December 27, 2017, it was torn down by authorities. The church was located near the Beijing-Kunming highway and had been in constant use since it was built in 1999. Local Catholics used

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to show official documents that approved the church for worship with one document showing that local officials had given the church permission to use the land for building purposes.

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