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House Church Member Imprisoned for Two Years

House Church Member Imprisoned for Two Years

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Chinese authorities arrested a 34-year-old house church member from Benxi city, Liaoning Province, for his faith and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment for the crime of "using a xie jiao organization to...

Elderly Christian Dies After Intense Indoctrination

Elderly Christian Dies After Intense Indoctrination

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A house church Christian in her early 80s died after persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Forced to attend an overnight indoctrination class without food or sleep, the woman collapsed and died two days...

Printing House Raided and Fined for Religious Literature

Printing House Raided and Fined for Religious Literature

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2015 A printing house in Liaoning Province is being persecuted by Chinese authorities for printing religious literature. In late November 2017, the Communist Party police organized a thriller-like raid of the printing...

Five House Church Members Detained for 15 Days in Jilin

Five House Church Members Detained for 15 Days in Jilin

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 In April 2018, of a group of Siping Public Security Bureau officers surrounded the meeting place of a house church in the town of Shijiabu, Lishu County, Siping city in Jilin Province. Without providing any...

Twenty-Five Shouters Arrested in Xinjiang

Twenty-Five Shouters Arrested in Xinjiang

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 23, 2018 Twenty-five members of the Shouters church in Xinjiang’s Kuitun city were arrested on March 14, 2017, when six officers from the local Public Security Bureau and police station broke down the door and charged into...