The Guangdong-based house church ministers have been called in for questioning and threatened for putting their names on the document. On August 30, house church pastors, ministers, and elders signed a joint statement denouncing the Chinese government’s persecution of...
The employees at a hospital in Xinjiang that are sent to live with Uyghurs through the “home-stay” program are instructed to watch for “suspicious” activities in the families, such as not crying at funerals, quitting smoking, or growing a beard.
Over 200 Church members were arrested since the beginning of summer in this southeastern province; a hundred more believers were questioned by the police.
Zhejiang Province authorities demolished a temple in Ningbo city in late August, violently beating protesting believers.
The Xinjiang resident is one of the three from his family to be sent to a “transformation through education” camp. He was arrested in March and is yet to see his newborn.
Churches across China are forced to sing songs praising the Communist Party or else believers would be prohibited from gathering.
According to documents issued by some municipalities in the province of Shanxi, the clergy are submitted to annual inspections, and their movements are restricted.
A session of the Parliament of the World’s Religions focused on religion-based Chinese refugees and introduced The Hoax, a movie about China’s attempt to harass the asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea
A government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church in Henan has been persecuted since 2015. In September, its main symbol – the cross – was destroyed.
Its congregation members and church leaders have gone through long-term harassment. In the latest raid, the police confiscated the church’s donation money as well.