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...
A house church member from Yucheng in Dezhou city, Shandong Province was apprehended after buying an online ticket to go to a religious event. In January 2018, Liu Fangfang (pseudonym) bought a plane ticket online to attend a religious event in Taiwan and was arrested...
Only four Muslim adults remain in 30 households on one of the alleys in a Xinjiang village; the rest are detained in camps. Since this spring, at least 60 individuals from a village in Manas County of the Changji prefecture in Xinjiang have been apprehended by...
Many Buddhist temples have been demolished since February across various provinces under the false pretext of “unapproved construction projects.” Hou Aiyun, the 83-year-old caretaker of the Guangxiao Temple in Zhengzhou, was barely awake when law enforcement personnel...
Elementary and middle school students in the region are being forced to abandon their religious belief. Preceding the holy month of Ramadan in May this year, the head teacher at a school in Xinjiang’s Turpan issued a verbal directive for all Uyghur or Islamic imagery...