Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 28, 2018 The Shanghai police arrested five Christians from two house churches in April and May. All of them remain in custody. On April 25, 2018, the police detained and arrested Chen Wenfang, a 58-year-old Christian with a...
Source: Direct reports from Italy Date: June 28, 2018 On June 27, the Justice Court of Perugia in Italy published two orders, no. 462/2018 and no. 459/2018, granting refugee status to two female members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers, CESNUR Date: June 27, 2018 The situation of religious liberty in China is the worst ever since the Cultural Revolution. At least one and a half million believers are in jail or in “Transformation Through Education” camps simply...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 On July 3, 2017, two members of an underground house church in Yuncheng city, Shanxi Province were arrested by the police on their way home from sharing the Gospel in Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City. They were then...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Local authorities mobilized over one hundred officers to demolish a newly-built place of worship of the Three-Self Church in Xingcun town in the city of Wuyishan, Fujian Province. This was the first church in the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 An elderly house church Christian was arrested and detained in the city of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, on June 22, 2017. A year later, she is still not released, and her family has not been allowed to see her for the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Chinese Communist Party authorities ordered to remove crosses from multiple churches in Henan Province’s Gongyi city in April and May. Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force on February 1,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police arrested almost all male Muslims over the age of thirty in a village in Xinjiang and sent them to “transformation through education camps” – an immense network of camps for...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 A 36-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, Zheng Heng (pseudonym), from Shangluo city, Shaanxi Province, fled his home in 2014 after the police tried to arrest him for...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The Police interrogated primary school children in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, seeking to find out if there were believers in their families. Officers took some of the children to a police station where one of them...