The CCP’s further implements its nationwide campaign to persecute The Church of Almighty God in provinces and cities across China, and the number of arrested believers is rising.
Authorities in Zhejiang shut down a Christian website in 2016 and harassed nine believers who used to run the site.
In Xi Jinping’s China, even Buddhism, a religion that has been traditionally practiced in the country, is not safe.
More than ten students who were interning at the Medical University of Xinjiang were expelled, other suspended for practicing Islam.
How China and other totalitarian regimes persecute religious minorities by claiming they are not “real” religions. The paper by Massimo Introvigne in the side event “Myth/Reality? Freedom of Belief, No Discrimination and Tolerance in the OSCE Area,” at the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, September 13, 2018.
Following the widespread removal of crosses in Henan, local governments in Jiangxi Province have also ordered to implement such removals; quite often using reasons that are hard to comprehend.
Christians who spread the gospel are severely fined by the authorities, causing financial hardships for their families.
Authorities used explosives to demolish a five-meter outdoor Buddhist statue in Hubei Province for supposedly obstructing the view for airplanes.
Four years ago, authorities in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou tried to demolish a church by force.
A Muslim in Xinjiang was given a five-year prison sentence for growing out an “abnormal beard.”