The authorities in a Henan Province's city were unable to demolish a church, following protests by believers. In April 2018, local authorities in Yanshi city of Henan Province made two attempts at demolishing a state-approved Protestant Three-Self Church but failed...
Testimonies China
Nun Arrested for “Violating” State Requirements for Sermons
A government-controlled Catholic Church sister in Zhejiang Province was arrested and held in detention for three months because her preaching did not correspond to the government’s requirements. On a Sunday morning of July 2016, after Ms. Zhou, a sister at the...
Three-Self Church Appropriated by Authorities
A government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church in Jiangxi Province was taken over by authorities and converted into a “poverty alleviation center.” With the growing persecution of religions in China, even the government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches...
Couple Arrested for Christian Books
Two Protestant pastors from a government-controlled Three-Self church in Guangdong Province were arrested for receiving religious publications by mail. On the morning of January 23, 2018, Dongguan city police officers arrived at the home of Xia Lian and her husband,...
When CCP Deployed Nearly 600 to Demolish a Church
A church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. The cross of a church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. On July 21, 2014, the cross of the...
Christian Church Forced to Spread Communist Propaganda
Authorities demand pastors to learn and explain Communist Party government policies before giving sermons and include ideological propaganda into them. According to sources in a Christian church in Hanzhong city, Shaanxi Province, all church activities related to the...
Elderly Christians Harassed And Tortured
Stories of three elderly Chinese Christians in Jilin Province and how they were persecuted for their belief. In the spring of 2015, Xiao Hong arrived home from the Tumen city market when three police officers apprehended her in plain clothes. She was arrested without...
House Church Leader Forced to Pay for Prison Meals
While a house church leader was serving her sentence, her family has been drained of money in paying for her prison meals. In October 2015, Wang Hui (pseudonym) was arrested with five others while they were having a religious gathering at a house church in Liaoning...
School Principal Dismissed and On Surveillance For Belief In God
A principal from China’s Liaoning Province has been on Communist Party’s watch list ever since he became religious. Yang Zhi (pseudonym) used to be a Communist Party member until 2014. That was the year other members found out that he was religious and believed in...
House Church Christian Tracked Down and Arrested
A previously arrested member of a Christian house church moved to a different province hoping to evade future persecutions, but authorities tracked her down. Zhang Pei (pseudonym), a Christian with a house church in Neijiang city, Sichuan Province had her home raided...









