Three victims tell stories of ordinary persecution for the Muslims, arrested simply for growing a beard, wearing a headscarf or reading the Quran. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in...
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Catholic Bishop Jia Zhiguo, 30 Years of House Arrest
The bishop of Zhengding of the underground Catholic Church has been in and out of detention since 1989, and is still kept under strict surveillance. Hebei is an important base for the Catholic Church in China. For many years, bishops and priests from the underground...
Church of Almighty God Members Arrested Across Shandong
Massive arrests against The Church of Almighty God continue in Heze, Rizhao, Zibo, Weifang, and other cities in Shandong Province. Since April of this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has launched a massive organized operation cracking down on The...
Church of Almighty God Member Detained in Chengdu Despite Her Poor Health
Despite her poor health, a female member of The Church of Almighty Gold is still detained in Sichuan. A female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement, is still detained in Chengdu, Sichuan, more than one month after her arrest,...
The McDonald’s Murder Remembered at the World Congress of Sociology
In 2014, China launched a massive international fake news campaign to attribute to The Church of Almighty God a homicide actually perpetrated by a different religious movement. At the XIX World Congress of Sociology, the largest gathering of sociologists in the...
Persecutions Destroy a Family of Believers in Almighty God
Arrest and imprisonment of two family members have led to mental problems and death. Chen Chong from the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province, a believer since her childhood, was born in 1958. She joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
Believer in Almighty God Arrested After Days of Surveillance
The police arrested a member of the Church of Almighty God after they followed her for days, which led them to other Church members. On May 9, 2018, Huang Yue, a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the...
Two Christian Sisters Persecuted for Years
Two sisters who were co-workers in a house church in Liaocheng city, Shandong, faced cruel persecution by the Chinese Communist authorities since 2008. Dong Lingyun and her younger sister Dong Lingxia (pseudonyms) have been arrested and imprisoned multiple time for...
No Church Can Be Taller Than Government Buildings in China
The local government forcibly destroyed a Three-Self church in a village of Henan Province for being taller than the local committee building. Authorities of the Zhaihouchen village of Jian’an district in the city of Xuchang demolished a government-approved Three-Self...
House Church Leader Sent to Prison and Over 70 Believers Implicated
A house church leader from Shanxi was arrested in July 2017 and imprisoned for six months; 70 members of the same church were questioned after his arrest. According to an inside source, on July 31, 2017, officers from a local police station apprehended a house church...









