A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A 36-year-old Christian from a house church was arrested in the early hours of the morning in her home and detained for a year. Even after her release, she is still surveilled and persecuted. Only because of her belief.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 The whole family of four from Dongdu town in Xintai, a county-level city in Shandong, was arrested by Chinese authorities for their belief, in the course of a few years and either sent to prison or fined. As members of a house church, they continue to […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 The Chinese government continues to suppress the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religious belief by intensifying anti-religious activities in schools. In February, the Ministry of Education ordered its departments to pay particular attention to the moral education of elementary and middle school students and political instructions of […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 24, 2018 In April 2018, of a group of Siping Public Security Bureau officers surrounded the meeting place of a house church in the town of Shijiabu, Lishu County, Siping city in Jilin Province. Without providing any documents, the officers searched the place and checked the pockets of […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 23, 2018 For five days in November 2017, in the village of Xiahuanggong, Xinjiang Province, armed policemen in helmets and carrying shields went from home to home forcing the inhabitants to hand over all items with Muslim symbols. Accompanied by the village’s auxiliary forces and citing government regulations, […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 23, 2018 Twenty-five members of the Shouters church in Xinjiang’s Kuitun city were arrested on March 14, 2017, when six officers from the local Public Security Bureau and police station broke down the door and charged into their gathering place. The arrested, four church leaders among them, were […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 A member of The Church of Almighty God was continuously persecuted and monitored by Chinese authorities for over five years after she was arrested and tortured for her faith in 2012. Afraid of being arrested again, she gave up her faith.
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 An 80-year-old member of The Church of Almighty God suffered a nervous breakdown after continued threats and harassment from the police. The constant intimidation, which continues for over five years, is putting a lot of pressure on the elderly woman who, like other followers of The […]
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Last year, government officials in the township of Yugan in the city of Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, ordered a local Three-Self Church that belongs to the official united Protestant church controlled by the government, to tear down the cross on its roof because it was “too conspicuous […]
