On May 14, 2014, at approximately 9 a.m., 3 officers from a local police station in Guoli town, Huantai County in Zibo rushed into the house of Christian Jiang Jiaming (pseudonym), ordered him to get his wife Cui Yu (pseudonym), who was working the fields at the time,...
Bitter Winter
Elderly Member of The Church of Almighty God Detained for Safeguarding Religious Books
The local police forced entry into the house of a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, in the city of Cenxi, Guangxi Province, taking him into custody and holding him for a fortnight after searching his house. Liu Zhong...
Armed Police Arrested Forty-Eight Shouters, Five Sentenced to Prison Time
On May 21, 2017, the Public Security Bureau of the city of Jimo, Shandong Province, united multiple local police stations, dispatched more than twenty squad cars and over seventy armed police officers and raided a local Shouters meeting site, forcibly detaining...
Rights Activists Appeal to US President to Intervene on Behalf of Detained Believer
Date: July 5, 2018 Nine leading human rights and religious liberty organizations sent a letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, appealing to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, the leader of the Christian new religious movement The Church of...
An Open Letter to President Trump to Save Demei Zou
Nine non-governmental organizations appeal to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, an asylum seeker of a Chinese Christian new religious movement, The Church of Almighty God, who is detained in Detroit, Michigan and...
A Member of The Church of Almighty Disabled After Intense Torture
Liao Ying (50) is from the city of Zigong City Sichuan Province and currently lives in Yining city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. She was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police on September 12, 2014, while heading to a gathering of The Church...
Drugged and Tortured by Police, Believer Left Incapacitated
Zhou Youjing (55), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is from the Pukou District of the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. In October 2016, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police arrested her when she was on the way to the...
Charismatic House Church Member Beaten by Police in Inner Mongolia
Over a hundred Christians from a charismatic house church in Inner Mongolia were beaten by the local armed police while they were in a gathering in July 2017. One elderly believer approaching eighty fainted after being tased, four others were forcibly arrested. Two of...
Local Church Co-Worker Sentenced to Four Years for Storing Church Literature
Wang Zhaogang (pseudonym, 53) was a co-worker in the Local Church and owned his own factory in the Lanshan District of Shandong Province’s Linyi city. In June 2014, the police closed down his factory under a pretext of conducting a tax inspection. While searching the...
Local Authorities Take Down Crosses of Two Three-Self Churches in Hangzhou
In the early morning hours of June 9, 2015, the crosses of two Three-Self churches – Huyuan Church and Yaokou Church – were secretly demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government. Both churches are located in Huyuan Township, Chang’an town, Fuyang...





