A government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church in Jiangxi Province was taken over by authorities and converted into a “poverty alleviation center.” With the growing persecution of religions in China, even the government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches...
Two Protestant pastors from a government-controlled Three-Self church in Guangdong Province were arrested for receiving religious publications by mail. On the morning of January 23, 2018, Dongguan city police officers arrived at the home of Xia Lian and her husband,...
A church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. The cross of a church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. On July 21, 2014, the cross of the...
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...