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...
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...
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...
A church member form Henan has been sentenced for his belief three times, which resulted in his mental and physical incapacitation. Zhang Wei (pseudonym), a 55-year-old primary co-worker in a local house church from Gaoxin town in the Suiyang district of Shangqiu...
Authorities removed the cross of a government-controlled Protestant church in Yichuan County, Henan Province, only after a third attempt: two teams of crane operators refused to dismantle it. In the early morning of April 10, a crane appeared at the church, and its...
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...
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...
Authorities have been persecuting the school for over two decades, forcing its constant relocation. Various Christian movements and religious groups in China have opened up private schools where classes on religions are taught alongside the regular curriculum. Due to...
A congregation in Yulin City, Shaanxi had repeatedly been raided by the local police at night and had their property looted. Some Christians were sentenced for up to five years. The congregation site was located in Yulin city and was the meeting place for the...
Many government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches have been shut down or ordered to remove their crosses in the city of Changchun. An administrative village in Wanjinta township, Nong’an county, Changchun city is home to a small Three-Self church with...