Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, is now regarded by the Chinese Communist Party as its number one enemy. It is listed as a xie jiao (“heterodox teaching,”) which means that...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received a believable report that, on October 29, 2017, at about 3:40 p.m., more than a dozen policemen broke into a house church in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, where Christians...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Around 5:00 p.m. on May 19, Xia Wei (pseudonym, female, 21), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the Chinese government in Chongqing along with ten...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 On April 17, authorities demolished a Catholic church in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province, claiming that it was built unlawfully. According to the priest at the church, Father Yang (pseudonym, 54 years old), the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 11, 2018 On the morning of April 16, the Changcun town government in Changyuan County, in Henan Province’s Xinxiang city demolished a Protestant church in Beixinxing village claiming that the church building was illegal. A...
Source: UCANews Date: June 11, 2018 A Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in China's Henan Province was forcibly demolished by authorities in the evening of June 5. Officials removed images of Jesus at the well-known Our Lady of Mount Carmel pilgrimage site in Tianjiajing...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 Since April 2017, the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting ceremonies of allegiance to the Party in government institutions, enterprises, as well as colleges and universities. Party and league members are...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 The public security police, the SWAT police and urban management officers from Jilin Province’s Jilin city seized a church near a residential community called “Beijijiayuan” on May 8, taking away four Christians. At...
Source: ChinaAid Date: June 8, 2018 The police in China’s southern Guangdong province detained a Christian couple that was advocating against abortion in a local park last Friday, reports ChinaAid. Liang Ziliang, a preacher at a Baptist Church in Heshan, Guangdong,...
Source: Asia News Date: June 6, 2018 On Monday, the police in Chengdu, Sichuan closed the Early Rain Covenant Church and detained its pastor Wang Yi, his wife, and a dozen preachers and worshipers. The church planned to hold a special prayer service that evening...