Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 On June 13, authorities demolished a church nearing completion in the village of Huangzhuyuan in Henan Province. A four-storied building of 2,000 square-meters that cost over 1.1 million RMB to build has been...
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Authorities Threaten to Demolish Forty Three-Self Churches in Hebei
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Authorities in the city of Handan, Hebei Province, sent notifications to forty government-controlled Three-Self churches threatening to demolish their buildings, an informed source told Bitter Winter. The crackdown...
Private School Closed Down, and Foreign Instructors Expelled for Suspected Religious Activities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Shenyang city’s National Security Bureau closed down the Rehoboth International School accused of religious affiliation and deported three school instructors in March this year. Over ten government departments...
Christian Couple in Xinjiang Sentenced for Years, Family Members Harassed by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...
Shandong House Church Leader Seriously Ill After Torture and Imprisonment
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 A house church leader from the Wanfu Office in the city of Heze, Shandong Province, was forcibly taken away from his home by the police in the summer of 2013 and was subjected to brutal torture and long-term...
Police Looted a Christian Couple’s Home, Detaining Them for Their Faith
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raided the home of a Christian couple in Beigucheng town, Yiliang County, Yunnan Province’s Kunming city, in October 2017. Without a warrant, the police confiscated large amounts of...
Bitter Winter’s Rosita Šorytė Calls for Protection of Church of Almighty God Refugees in Brussels
Source: Alliance of Conservative and Reformists in Europe Date: June 30, 2018 Members of the European Parliament, NGOs, and international institutions expressed great interest for the first Faith and Freedom Summit organized by the Alliance of Conservative and...
House Church Leader in Gansu Tortured to Death for His Belief
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 A house church leader was forcibly arrested in Longxi County, Dingxi city, Gansu Province in April of 2015. He died in a detention center after prolonged torture. Lin Suidan (45) was a house church leader in Longxi...
Xinjiang Police Sends Dozens of Muslims to “Re-Education” Camps
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang Province have been suffering intense persecution with huge numbers of persons detained and locked up in the so-called re-education camps under the pretext of fight against terrorism....
Authorities Closed Down Many Buddhist Temples in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 In recent months, Chinese authorities closed down many Buddhist temples in Henan Province’s Gongyi city. In late March 2018, more than a thousand-year-old Luohan Temple in Jiajinkou town was forcibly closed down as...

