The authorities arrested a Christian couple in 2005 and continue to monitor them despite their long sentence. In December 2005, Zhang Rendao (pseudonym) and his family were traveling from Kunshan city to northern Jiangsu. While passing through the Jiangyin Yangtze...
The authorities arrested believers at the site of Sanjiang Church in Zhejiang Province who were observing a moment of silence to commemorate the church’s demolition four years ago. The Sanjiang Church in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou city was demolished using explosives in April...
A recently released pastor struggles to live a normal life after a brutal prison sentence. In March 2014, Zhou Xi (pseudonym) was arrested for preaching the gospel. Mr. Zhou was a pastor at a house church in Inner Mongolia. 34 other believers were detained along with...
In two incidents from Henan province, authorities deployed a total of 70 officers to remove religious signage from government-approved churches. On July 11, six local government officials in Henan’s Zhumadian city carried out an overnight raid at a True Jesus Church...
The authorities tore down a state-controlled church in Chenji town two years ago and have not permitted its reconstruction so far. In May 2016, a church that belongs to the government-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement was under construction in Henan’s Chenji...
Local authorities in Xinjiang’s Manas county arrested four people after a villager reported about their whereabouts. In late March, a man ventured into a village to run some errands. A villager identified him as being the son of a local house church leader, Liu Zhang...
A member of The Church of Almighty God was arrested at the Shanghai airport after she came back from Japan. On July 18, 2018, Tan Ruihua (pseudonym), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, who had worked in Japan for the...
The leader of a Chinese religious movement was detained and later imprisoned. The Local Church, also known in China as the “Shouters, which the Chinese authorities listed as xie jiao in 1995. This non-denominational movement was started in 1927 by Ni Tuosheng or...
The CCP authorities detained a number of imams last year and continue to hold them for no reason. An imam is an honorific title in Islam given to a person who is the head of a mosque. It is a role equivalent to that of a priest in charge of a church in Christianity or...
Authorities have kept a close watch on an elderly Christian and harassed him one way or other all his life. On July 27, three officers from the Yongcheng city police station barged into the home of 70-year-old Dong Li (pseudonym). He was not at home, so the police...