Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 11, 2018 On the morning of April 16, the Changcun town government in Changyuan County, in Henan Province’s Xinxiang city demolished a Protestant church in Beixinxing village claiming that the church building was illegal. A...
China
Authorities Demolish Catholic Way of the Cross in Henan
Source: UCANews Date: June 11, 2018 A Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in China's Henan Province was forcibly demolished by authorities in the evening of June 5. Officials removed images of Jesus at the well-known Our Lady of Mount Carmel pilgrimage site in Tianjiajing...
Elimination of Religion Through Party Allegiance Ceremonies
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 Since April 2017, the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting ceremonies of allegiance to the Party in government institutions, enterprises, as well as colleges and universities. Party and league members are...
Police Seized a Church and Arrested Christians in Jilin
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 The public security police, the SWAT police and urban management officers from Jilin Province’s Jilin city seized a church near a residential community called “Beijijiayuan” on May 8, taking away four Christians. At...
China Is Deprogramming One Million “Religious Extremists”
Massimo Introvigne On May 24, 2018, a heated confrontation took place at the United Nations in New York. The United States and Germany accused China of keeping hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghurs in “re-education camps.” The Chinese representative answered that...
Christian Anti-Abortion Protesters Detained in Guangdong
Source: ChinaAid Date: June 8, 2018 The police in China’s southern Guangdong province detained a Christian couple that was advocating against abortion in a local park last Friday, reports ChinaAid. Liang Ziliang, a preacher at a Baptist Church in Heshan, Guangdong,...
Police Close the Early Rain Covenant Church
Source: Asia News Date: June 6, 2018 On Monday, the police in Chengdu, Sichuan closed the Early Rain Covenant Church and detained its pastor Wang Yi, his wife, and a dozen preachers and worshipers. The church planned to hold a special prayer service that evening...
China’s Got Talent? CCP Shopping for Pro-Regime Religious Personnel
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 5, 2018 Bitter Winter has received a copy of a confidential circular letter titled “Suggestions on Strengthening and Improving Islamic Work Under the New Circumstances,” issued on April 19, 2018, by the General Office of...
Church of Almighty God Refugee Arrested Upon Her Return to China
Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers and Direct Reports from China Date: June 5, 2018 As reported in an article of Human Rights Without Frontiers, on May 23, 2018, Yang Shihua, a Chinese member of the Christian new religious movement The Church of Almighty God, was...
Atrocities of Political Training Centers for Ethnic Minorities
Source: ChinaAid Date: June 5, 2018 ChinaAid reports on the atrocities in the so-called “political training center” for ethnic minorities in China’s northwest Xinjiang. A Kazakh Muslim prisoner, just released after a year in one of such centers, describes the horrors...


