Authorities demand pastors to learn and explain Communist Party government policies before giving sermons and include ideological propaganda into them. According to sources in a Christian church in Hanzhong city, Shaanxi Province, all church activities related to the...
Stories of three elderly Chinese Christians in Jilin Province and how they were persecuted for their belief. In the spring of 2015, Xiao Hong arrived home from the Tumen city market when three police officers apprehended her in plain clothes. She was arrested without...
While a house church leader was serving her sentence, her family has been drained of money in paying for her prison meals. In October 2015, Wang Hui (pseudonym) was arrested with five others while they were having a religious gathering at a house church in Liaoning...
A principal from China’s Liaoning Province has been on Communist Party’s watch list ever since he became religious. Yang Zhi (pseudonym) used to be a Communist Party member until 2014. That was the year other members found out that he was religious and believed in...
A previously arrested member of a Christian house church moved to a different province hoping to evade future persecutions, but authorities tracked her down. Zhang Pei (pseudonym), a Christian with a house church in Neijiang city, Sichuan Province had her home raided...
A woman that belonged to a government-approved Protestant Three-Self Church in Fujian was blacklisted when her religious faith was marked as xie jiao (a heterodox organization) on the official identity database. The religious affiliation of a person, among other...
A black iron sheet was used to hide the cross on the main entrance to a government-controlled Catholic church that belongs to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association in Xikeng, Zhejiang. The Pingyang County government declared that the cross on the Xikeng Church...
The Three-Self Church in Shuangmiao village is one of many government-controlled churches recently demolished in Henan Province. The crackdown on religion in China has affected even the Three-Self Churches that belong to the State-approved united Protestant church. On...
After university authorities discovered that a student was a member of The Church of Almighty God, he was forced to leave his studies and flee. Li Chao (pseudonym) studied at a university in Henan and was also a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
In China, even possessing a book from The Church of Almighty God is sufficient grounds for arrest or persecution; an elderly believer from Shandong knows this well after being apprehended twice. Chen Ye (pseudonym), a 65-years-old member of The Church of Almighty God,...