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Testimonies China

Believer Sent to Prison After Returning to China

Believer Sent to Prison After Returning to China

A member of The Church of Almighty God was imprisoned when she returned to China after her asylum application was refused in Switzerland. Wu Xin (pseudonym), born on April 5, 1956, in Linshu County of Linyi city, Shandong, joined The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...

Police Use Funeral to Capture Local Church Preacher

Police Use Funeral to Capture Local Church Preacher

Law enforcement officers apprehended an Evangelical preacher during her father-in-law’s funeral. While preacher Ding Lijuan (pseudonym) of the Local Church in Jiaozuo city, Henan, was making funeral arrangements for her father-in-law, she was arrested by the Chinese...

Five Family Members of Believers in Almighty God Arrested

Five Family Members of Believers in Almighty God Arrested

The police monitored phones of the family members before arresting them during a joint operation between two regional law enforcement forces. Li Changqing and five others in his family are members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...

House Church Leader Forced to Undergo Intense Indoctrination

House Church Leader Forced to Undergo Intense Indoctrination

Arrested for her belief, a house church leader spent three years in prison undergoing brutal atheist “training.” In July 2014, more than a dozen police officers from the Public Security Bureau and local police station in Dezhou city, Pingyuan county, Shandong...

House Church Members Severely Beaten in Detention

House Church Members Severely Beaten in Detention

Three house church co-workers were arrested during a religious meeting; during their detention, police officers beat two of them up. On May 14, 2012, at approximately 11 a.m., the chief of a local police station in Yuechi county of Guang’an, Sichuan, brought several...

Christians Continue to Be Harassed After Prison

Christians Continue to Be Harassed After Prison

Five house church members from Qingdao, Shandong Province were sentenced to a year and four months in prison and continue to be persecuted after their release. On May 22, 2016, the police raided a house church in the Yifengdian town, Jimo city, Qingdao, Shandong and...

Believer’s Family Falls Apart Because of Persecutions

Believer’s Family Falls Apart Because of Persecutions

A member of The Church of Almighty God had to flee his home and lost his family after his name has been put on the most-wanted list. The name of Wang Kai (pseudonym), a member of The Church of Almighty God from Shangqiu city, Henan, was put on the list of wanted...