The Guangdong-based house church ministers have been called in for questioning and threatened for putting their names on the document. On August 30, house church pastors, ministers, and elders signed a joint statement denouncing the Chinese government’s persecution of...
The employees at a hospital in Xinjiang that are sent to live with Uyghurs through the “home-stay” program are instructed to watch for “suspicious” activities in the families, such as not crying at funerals, quitting smoking, or growing a beard.
Over 200 Church members were arrested since the beginning of summer in this southeastern province; a hundred more believers were questioned by the police.
Churches across China are forced to sing songs praising the Communist Party or else believers would be prohibited from gathering.
According to documents issued by some municipalities in the province of Shanxi, the clergy are submitted to annual inspections, and their movements are restricted.
A session of the Parliament of the World’s Religions focused on religion-based Chinese refugees and introduced The Hoax, a movie about China’s attempt to harass the asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea
As the authorities put more and more Muslim men in detention, there is hardly anyone left to work on the fields.
Since house churches have come up with several ingenious ways to evade persecution, the authorities have now started deploying spies to crack down on religious belief.
The province in the east of China is home to the second-largest population of Christians in China, most of whom are concentrated in the cities of Fuyang and Liu’an.
Authorities in Henan are coercing the owners at commercial establishments such as hotels and supermarkets to remove the signboards or face consequences.