The idea of human rights is founded on the principle of natural rights. But official Chinese human rights principles state that human rights are rights given by society to the individual. by Aaron Rhodes This text was presented as a speech at the seminar Freedom of...
Believers working for the state lost their jobs, homes, and privileges after their faith had been exposed. Since the new Regulation on Religious Affairs came into force in February 2018, China’s government employees, teachers, healthcare workers, and Communist Party...
A member of The Church of Almighty God was imprisoned when she returned to China after her asylum application was refused in Switzerland. Wu Xin (pseudonym), born on April 5, 1956, in Linshu County of Linyi city, Shandong, joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
At a side event during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, doctors report about organs being removed from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and other prisoners of conscience in China, and used for transplant. In 2006, reports that corneas were being removed from Falun...
Authorities have been persecuting the school for over two decades, forcing its constant relocation. Various Christian movements and religious groups in China have opened up private schools where classes on religions are taught alongside the regular curriculum. Due to...
Court of Appeal in Lincang, Yunnan, confirms heavy prison sentences for Christians accused of being members of a banned movement they insist they never heard of. On May 3, 2018, Bitter Winter reported that house church Christians in Yunnan were being arrested and...
Only four Muslim adults remain in 30 households on one of the alleys in a Xinjiang village; the rest are detained in camps. Since this spring, at least 60 individuals from a village in Manas County of the Changji prefecture in Xinjiang have been apprehended by...
Local authorities decided to stop the building of a church after they sold the land to the congregation and issued all necessary permits. The construction of a church building that belongs to China’s state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement was...
An imam from Henan Province was lured to come to a police station and has been detained for over eight months. Wang Haoyi (pseudonym), an imam from Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo city in Henan Province was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government for explaining...
On July 25, 2014, over 10,000 people took part in the demolition of the cross from the Wenling Church in Zhejiang Province. A distinctive clock tower stands on the Chengguan Church in Wenling, Taizhou city, Zhejiang, on which once towered a bright red cross. Today,...