Since the beginning of this year, when China launched a nationwide campaign to “clean up gang crime and eliminate evil,” local governments across the country are persecuting certain religious groups using the same techniques as for combating organized crime. Other methods are also widely employed.
56 house church congregation members were arrested in Jiangxi Province after reports from a special agent who pretended to be one of the believers.
It is not uncommon for public authorities in China to employ local thugs to do their bidding. In one such operation in Jiangxi, a woman lost her life.
Chinese authorities continue persecutions against The Church of Almighty God; this time, in Guangdong Province.
Authorities in Zhejiang Province’s Taizhou city forcibly removed crosses from two churches that belong to the government-controlled Protestant Patriotic Three-Self Movement on an unreasonable pretext.
“Guilt by association” was widely used by ancient Chinese ruling classes against dangerous criminals; the CCP today is applying this rule to persecute religions.
Travels abroad for priests in China are restricted, and their movements are monitored via cellphones and surveillance cameras.
The prison guards at the Jiujiang city detention center subjected a member of The Church of Almighty God to severe torture and humiliation for days.
To further its “sinicization” policy, the Chinese authorities have been ordering religious institutions to raise the Chinese flag and sing the national anthem.
Authorities in Jiangxi Province replace religious symbols with Party slogans in “official” churches that belong to the China Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement. At 11 a.m. on July 27, 2018, government officials and local party cadres from Nangang town, in...