Patriotic ideology and traditional Chinese culture forcefully replacing religious activities, churches pressured to stage plays and operas to transform faith.
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Church of Almighty God’s Sister Zou Demei Is Free
Supported by a campaign by Bitter Winter and several NGOs, the former leader of the CAG in four Chinese provinces, who escaped to the US with a false passport, has finally left jail.
Catholic Pilgrimages Come Under Strict CCP Control
The striking cases of Ludezhuang, Mozi Mountain, Sheshan Hill and Niuyu Cross Mountain forced to recognize the state. We heard the voice of the witnesses
South Korean Christians Systematically Suppressed
Foreign-affiliated churches are continuously harassed: religious venues closed down, believers investigated and prohibited from traveling abroad.
Xinjiang Police App Used for Illegal Surveillance
All-encompassing data on Muslim residents is collected and used against them to justify mass detentions in the name of counter-terrorism.
Indoctrination Classes for Disobedient Catholic Clergy
Forty-five priests from the Diocese of Zhangjiakou were forced to undergo “ideological conversion classes” to make them join the Patriotic Church.
Tension Escalates in the Diocese of Mindong
Amid ultimatums and threats to join the Patriotic Church, the Catholics who didn’t do so continue to resist CCP’s goal to take full control of all the dioceses.
Punished for Not Joining the Official Protestant Church
Over the past two months, at least a dozen of house church meeting venues were forcibly closed down in the province of Hubei, Fujian, and Liaoning.
Four More Open-Air Buddhist Statues Destroyed
The CCP’s war against large religious statues continues nationwide: recent casualties from the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Zhejiang.
Surveillance Cameras Besiege Three-Self Churches
Believers in government-controlled churches have their personal and religious freedoms violated, as authorities watch their every move.