Since April this year, authorities in Chongqing’s Jiangjin district launched a campaign to completely shut down house churches.
Yao Zhangjin
Religious Gatherings of Three or Less are Subject to CCP Persecution
The authorities have issued orders that small gatherings of two to three believers are to be reported as well. Ever since the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs in February, the Chinese authorities have intensified their assault on house...
House Church Co-Worker Suffers Physical Abuse in Detention
Four years ago, several co-workers and more than 70 believers of a house church in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan Province, were arrested; one of them was severely beaten while in custody. At noon on March 31, 2014, over ten officers from the National Security Brigade...
40 Christians Arrested for Participating in Summer Camp
The group included 28 underage students and were meeting in a remote area when the police detained them. On July 18, Xie Biao, a pastor with Justification by Faith church, organized religious summer camp in a remote forest in Sichuan’s Langzhong city. The group was...
CCP Persecutes Catholic Bishop From Shaanxi
Authorities detained and continue to monitor a bishop who traveled abroad for religious purposes. In 2012, Bishop Tong Changping traveled to the Vatican City in the hope of meeting the then Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Tong left behind the cell phone given to him by CCP...
Elderly Christian Attempts Suicide to Escape Persecution
The police apprehended four elderly house church Christians in Sichuan. One of them, fearing the authorities would cancel his subsistence allowance, attempted to kill himself. On April 6, 2017, the head of the local police station of Mianyang city, Sichuan Province...
Family of Arrested Believer Not Allowed to See Her
A believer in Almighty God was detained in May, and her family has not been able to visit her or even get any information on her whereabouts. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement,...
Tibetan-Style Guanghua Temple in Shaanxi Province Demolished
Authorities destroyed a well-known Buddhist temple in the province’s Xutang village in 2013. The Tibetan-style Guanghua Temple was located in Xutang village, Zhengyang town, Weicheng district, Xianyang city, and it was attracting many worshipers who came there to...
Christian Deemed “Counter-revolutionary” for Constructing a Church
A believer was reprimanded for a church that she has financed to build, and authorities demanded to demolish it. In March of 2014, Li Susu (pseudonym), a house church Christian from Guangyuan city, Sichuan learned that her cancer went into remission, and she decided...
Sweeping Arrests of Believers in Almighty God in Chongqing
Over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God have been arrested in the city of Chongqing since this April. The whereabouts of 40 detainees remain unknown; seven reported to have been tortured. According to government insiders, as early as the beginning of 2018, the...
Yao Zhangjin
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