A believer was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to two years in jail for believing in a heterodox religious movement. Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code states that “using” a xie jiao (heterodox teachings) is a crime punishable with jail penalties from three to...
A newly-built state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church in Luohe city, Henan, forcibly occupied by authorities and transformed into a center for Communist Party members. The Caodian Church, located in Wenshi township, Yuanhui district of Luohe was still undergoing...
The Chinese authorities often target Christians or Chinese citizens who flee the country but then return. In August 2017, Jiang Han (pseudonym) returned to China. A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, he had returned to...
The authorities continue their mission of removing church crosses by whatever means possible. In Mainland China, a campaign of forced demolitions or removals of church crosses has been underway since the past four years. As of July 2015, over 1700 crosses had been...
A Three-Self church in Yunnan Province was arbitrarily demolished to make way for “consolidation.” On April 8, the Three-Self government-controlled Denglongba Church received a notice from the Lushui City Bureau of Religious Affairs that the church’s certification has...
Authorities destroyed a well-known Buddhist temple in the province’s Xutang village in 2013. The Tibetan-style Guanghua Temple was located in Xutang village, Zhengyang town, Weicheng district, Xianyang city, and it was attracting many worshipers who came there to...
The authorities refused to issue tourist visas to citizens wanting to visit South Korea. Following the implementation of the new Regulations of Religious Affairs, Chinese citizens of Christian faith are finding it difficult to obtain permission to travel out of China....
Three Christians were sentenced to jail time two years after they were protecting a government-approved church’s cross from being torn down in Zhejiang. In March 2013, Zhejiang provincial government launched a three-year (2013–2015) “Three Rectifications and One...
A house church in Jilin was destroyed in mid-July, and over 200 believers were arrested; now, they will lose their home, because the local authorities have ordered to demolish their 8-story residential building. The two-story house church in the Ningjiang district of...
The cross of a government-controlled church in a village in Shandong was removed, and the church was covered with greenery for a visit by China’s President. On June 9-10 this year, the Chinese government hosted in Qingdao city, Shandong Province, the summit of the...