On Friday, congregants at the Wenling Church in the city of Taizhou faced off with as many as 4,000 police officers but failed to prevent the removal of two crosses from atop their building. […] One of the two crosses that were removed on Friday from the Wenling Church in Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, China. […] At the Wenling Church in Taizhou, congregants said hundreds of Christians sang hymns at daybreak on Friday as the riot police surrounded the church, which is anchored by a distinctive clock tower capped by a bright red cross.
2014 July 28, Andrew Jacobs, “China Removes Crosses From Two More Churches in Crackdown”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 July 2014, Asia Pacific