Liao Ying (50) is from the city of Zigong City Sichuan Province and currently lives in Yining city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. She was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police on September 12, 2014, while heading to a gathering of The Church...
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Drugged and Tortured by Police, Believer Left Incapacitated
Zhou Youjing (55), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is from the Pukou District of the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. In October 2016, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police arrested her when she was on the way to the...
Charismatic House Church Member Beaten by Police in Inner Mongolia
Over a hundred Christians from a charismatic house church in Inner Mongolia were beaten by the local armed police while they were in a gathering in July 2017. One elderly believer approaching eighty fainted after being tased, four others were forcibly arrested. Two of...
Local Church Co-Worker Sentenced to Four Years for Storing Church Literature
Wang Zhaogang (pseudonym, 53) was a co-worker in the Local Church and owned his own factory in the Lanshan District of Shandong Province’s Linyi city. In June 2014, the police closed down his factory under a pretext of conducting a tax inspection. While searching the...
Local Authorities Take Down Crosses of Two Three-Self Churches in Hangzhou
In the early morning hours of June 9, 2015, the crosses of two Three-Self churches – Huyuan Church and Yaokou Church – were secretly demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government. Both churches are located in Huyuan Township, Chang’an town, Fuyang...
A Nearly Completed Church Demolished in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 On June 13, authorities demolished a church nearing completion in the village of Huangzhuyuan in Henan Province. A four-storied building of 2,000 square-meters that cost over 1.1 million RMB to build has been...
Authorities Threaten to Demolish Forty Three-Self Churches in Hebei
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Authorities in the city of Handan, Hebei Province, sent notifications to forty government-controlled Three-Self churches threatening to demolish their buildings, an informed source told Bitter Winter. The crackdown...
Private School Closed Down, and Foreign Instructors Expelled for Suspected Religious Activities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Shenyang city’s National Security Bureau closed down the Rehoboth International School accused of religious affiliation and deported three school instructors in March this year. Over ten government departments...
Henan Government Attempts to Block Foreign Journalists From Reporting About Persecutions of Religions
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Henan’s Gongyi city government prepared special measures to prevent foreign journalists from getting information on religious beliefs in the province, discloses an official internal document. A Special Operation...
Christian Couple in Xinjiang Sentenced for Years, Family Members Harassed by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...

