Christian cult in China beating woman to death

***Americans took these people-from-Asia's word at face value***

China tries five cult members for McDonald’s murder, Group accused of beating woman to death after failing to recruit her into Christian cult.

BEIJING — Five people went on trial Thursday in China on charges of beating a woman to death in a McDonald’s restaurant after unsuccessfully trying to recruit her to join their Christian cult. 

They allegedly belong to the Church of Almighty God, also known as Eastern Lightning, a group that claims to have millions of members here and believes that God has returned to Earth in China in the form of a female Christ. 

The five are accused of trying to recruit the woman in McDonald’s in the eastern city of Zhaoyuan on the evening of May 28. When she refused to give them her phone number, prosecutors charge, they beat her to death with chairs, a mop and, when the mop broke, with its metal handle. Footage of the incident from closed-circuit television cameras and video taken by other diners went viral at the time.
The man wielding the mop handle was 54-year-old Zhang Lidong, who was joined in the attack by his 29- and 18-year-old daughters, his 12-year-old son and two other women, Chinese state media reported. The son, who is below the age of criminal responsibility in China, will be dealt with separately. 

Zhang, a former businessman who had reportedly arrived at the restaurant in a luxury Porsche Cayenne car, later confessed on state television but appeared unrepentant. 

“My daughter said you could just tell she was not a good person,” he said, referring to the victim. “She was a demon, the evil spirit. We had to beat her to death.”

Eastern Lightning is believed to have been formed in the early 1990s in China’s central Henan province by a man named Zhao Weishan. According to the official Xinhua news agency, Zhao claimed Jesus had been resurrected as his wife, Yang Xiangbin, but the couple fled to the United States in September 2000.

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This is the kind of people I was working with.