Authorities detained and continue to monitor a bishop who traveled abroad for religious purposes. In 2012, Bishop Tong Changping traveled to the Vatican City in the hope of meeting the then Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Tong left behind the cell phone given to him by CCP...
The leader of a Protestant Three-Self church was sentenced to one year in prison for allowing two out-of-town pastors to give a sermon. On September 27, 2017, Chen Shouxin (pseudonym), the leader of a government-controlled Three-Self church in Wuyang county, Luohe...
The dwellings at a Buddhist gathering place in Kunming city were demolished by the Chinese law enforcement, dispersing dozens of Buddhists. At 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, over 40 Buddhists were reciting scripture in a tent on a small mountain in...
Authorities expand their campaign to prosecute South Korean Christian churches to universities and local communities. Since the United Front Work Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the National Bureau of Religious Affairs adopted the “Plan for the...
Hundreds of Christians from across China were arrested during a large religious gathering in Hubei Province. A Christian named Xu Meilan from a house church in Xian’an High-Tech Development Zone, Xianning city, Hubei Province, invited more than 500 Christians from her...
The police apprehended four elderly house church Christians in Sichuan. One of them, fearing the authorities would cancel his subsistence allowance, attempted to kill himself. On April 6, 2017, the head of the local police station of Mianyang city, Sichuan Province...
The local authorities leveled a government-approved Protestant church that had been guarded by its members day and night for three years. On January 26, 2017, during the Chinese New Year, government officials from Baisha town, Zhengzhou city assembled more than 200...
This cruel torture method that leads to severe physical and psychological damage is often used to interrogate religious believers in China. The Chinese government signed the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1986 but has never complied with it. Law...
The authorities illegally closed a Catholic establishment two years prior to its lease expiration. In December 2015, officers from the Chengtou police station in Fuqing city charged into a Catholic oratory and ordered the believers to move out. When they persisted,...
A Christian man who was arrested and became half immobile due to torture was forced to return to prison. In October 2015, officers from a local police station in Inner Mongolia’s Wulanhaote city arrested Wang Qiang for his Christian faith (pseudonym). He was sentenced...