A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 In April 2018, a dozen members of a Three-Self church in Ledu District of the city of Haidong, Qinghai Province, were holding a meeting when the landlord of the apartment came in and told them to leave the premises. Ten minutes later, the police showed up.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 Forty gathering sites of the Three-Self Church – the government-controlled united Protestant church – in Guanyintang town, Henan Province, were forced to close down in a period of few months, after the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force on February 1, 2018.
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 undermine law enforcement.”
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 later.
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 house, fined it with a large sum and, since then, have been subjecting the manager […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A 36-year-old Christian from a house church was arrested in the early hours of the morning in her home and detained for a year. Even after her release, she is still surveilled and persecuted. Only because of her belief.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 The whole family of four from Dongdu town in Xintai, a county-level city in Shandong, was arrested by Chinese authorities for their belief, in the course of a few years and either sent to prison or fined. As members of a house church, they continue to […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 The Chinese government continues to suppress the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religious belief by intensifying anti-religious activities in schools. In February, the Ministry of Education ordered its departments to pay particular attention to the moral education of elementary and middle school students and political instructions of […]
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 documents, the officers searched the place and checked the pockets of […]
