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Hubei Couple Arrested for Contacts with Foreign Missionary

Hubei Couple Arrested for Contacts with Foreign Missionary

A couple who belonged to a house church in Xiaogan city, Hubei Province was monitored for a long time before their arrest. On May 10, 2018, the home of Chen Jie (pseudonym) and her husband, both members of a house church in Xiaogan City in Hubei Province, was forcibly...

Ergong Village Mosque Closed, 100 Muslims Arrested

Ergong Village Mosque Closed, 100 Muslims Arrested

Authorities closed down a Mosque in Ergong village in the city of Shihezi, Xinjiang, and sent local Muslims to a “transformation through education” camp in late April. A local villager said that on April 20, 2018, the Shihezi police and auxiliary police surrounded the...

House Church Leader Arrested While on the Run From Authorities

House Church Leader Arrested While on the Run From Authorities

A house church leader from Anhui Province sentenced to 18 months after the police apprehend him while on the run to evade arrest. The name of a house church leader, Wang Hui (pseudonym), from Bozhou city, Anhui Province, was put on the list of wanted persons after the...

Authorities Organized Arrests of Christians in Anhui Province

Authorities Organized Arrests of Christians in Anhui Province

Inside sources revealed that authorities organized an operation in March to arrest Christians in the city of Suzhou in Anhui Province. According to government insiders, on March 23, 2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a campaign against Christian house...

Public Security Bureau Issued Quotas to Arrest Christians

Public Security Bureau Issued Quotas to Arrest Christians

A detained believers’ couple in Jilin Province has learned that the police were issued quotas for arresting the Christians. In the morning of March 2, 2018, Christian Zhang Li used his ID card to buy a train ticket in a town in Songyuan city, Jilin Province. Because...

Heavily Armed Police Arrested Christians in Jiangsu

Heavily Armed Police Arrested Christians in Jiangsu

Thirty officers burst into a house church and arrested 29 believers, later detaining some of them for up to ten days. At about 8 p.m. on March 30, 2018, nearly 30 heavily armed officers from the Pizhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province and a local police...

People’s Congress Deputy Status Revoked for Believing in God

People’s Congress Deputy Status Revoked for Believing in God

A deputy from Xiangyang city in the National People’s Congress (NPC) was stripped of her mandate for being a member of a house church. Yang Hua (pseudonym) was a local National People’s Congress (NPC) deputy from Xiangyang city in Hubei Province as well as a regular...