RefuSource: Libero Date; July 6, 2018 The Italian national conservative newspaper Libero has joined the international campaign in favor of Sister Zou Demei, a regional leader of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement. Sister Zou is...
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Lantos Foundation Joins Appeal to President Trump for Zou Demei
Source: Lantos Foundation Date: July 6, 2018 The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice, one of the most important American non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights and religious liberty, added its signature on July 5 to the open letter...
Detainees Recount Abuse in Chinese Re-Education Centers
Source: The Globe and Mail Date: July 5, 2018 Chinese officials have denied the existence of the re-education camps and refused to accept inspections from foreign countries, which adds to the concerns over human-rights violations in China, reports Canadian daily The...
Rights Activists Appeal to US President to Intervene on Behalf of Detained Believer
Date: July 5, 2018 Nine leading human rights and religious liberty organizations sent a letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, appealing to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, the leader of the Christian new religious movement The Church of...
A Nearly Completed Church Demolished in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 On June 13, authorities demolished a church nearing completion in the village of Huangzhuyuan in Henan Province. A four-storied building of 2,000 square-meters that cost over 1.1 million RMB to build has been...
Authorities Threaten to Demolish Forty Three-Self Churches in Hebei
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Authorities in the city of Handan, Hebei Province, sent notifications to forty government-controlled Three-Self churches threatening to demolish their buildings, an informed source told Bitter Winter. The crackdown...
Private School Closed Down, and Foreign Instructors Expelled for Suspected Religious Activities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Shenyang city’s National Security Bureau closed down the Rehoboth International School accused of religious affiliation and deported three school instructors in March this year. Over ten government departments...
Henan Government Attempts to Block Foreign Journalists From Reporting About Persecutions of Religions
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Henan’s Gongyi city government prepared special measures to prevent foreign journalists from getting information on religious beliefs in the province, discloses an official internal document. A Special Operation...
Christian Couple in Xinjiang Sentenced for Years, Family Members Harassed by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...
Shandong House Church Leader Seriously Ill After Torture and Imprisonment
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 A house church leader from the Wanfu Office in the city of Heze, Shandong Province, was forcibly taken away from his home by the police in the summer of 2013 and was subjected to brutal torture and long-term...





