Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 A 36-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, Zheng Heng (pseudonym), from Shangluo city, Shaanxi Province, fled his home in 2014 after the police tried to arrest him for...
Bitter Winter
Police Interrogated Primary School Children to Seek Out Believers
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The Police interrogated primary school children in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, seeking to find out if there were believers in their families. Officers took some of the children to a police station where one of them...
Believers Protect Their Church From Demolition Day and Night
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 Since late May, authorities of Yegang town, Minquan County, Henan Province, have repeatedly tried to demolish a Three-Self Church in the village of Bawo. The congregation is guarding the church day and night. As...
Arrested a Year Ago, House Church Leader Still Missing
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The police burst into the meeting place of a house church in Hubei Province’s Yanji town, the city of Ezhou, and arrested six Christians who were having a meeting, without any explanation and proper documentation....
Shipping Containers Used as Church Torn Down by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The congregation of a Three-Self church in Fujian Province’s Aoqian town, Pingtan County, Fuzhou city, could not find a good gathering place, so a few years ago, they raised money and bought a plot of land. Despite...
Police Ransacked a Three-Self Church in Qinghai Province
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 In April 2018, a dozen members of a Three-Self church in Ledu District of the city of Haidong, Qinghai Province, were holding a meeting when the landlord of the apartment came in and told them to leave the...
“Home-Stay” Program for Uyghur Muslims: Stories From the Frontline
Article based on direct reports from China, June 26, 2018 Since the beginning of 2018, Chinese authorities have been implementing the so-called “home-stay” program in Xinjiang Province – over a million Communist Party cadres, officials of state institutions, and...
Forty Gathering Sites of Three-Self Church Closed Down in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Forty gathering sites of the Three-Self Church - the government-controlled united Protestant church - in Guanyintang town, Henan Province, were forced to close down in a period of few months, after the new...
House Church Member Imprisoned for Two Years
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Chinese authorities arrested a 34-year-old house church member from Benxi city, Liaoning Province, for his faith and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment for the crime of "using a xie jiao organization to...
Elderly Christian Dies After Intense Indoctrination
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A house church Christian in her early 80s died after persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Forced to attend an overnight indoctrination class without food or sleep, the woman collapsed and died two days...

