• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • ABOUT CHINA
    • NEWS
    • TESTIMONIES
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • GLOSSARY
    • CHINA PERSECUTION MAP
  • FROM THE WORLD
    • NEWS
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • TESTIMONIES
  • INTERVIEWS
  • DOCUMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS
    • DOCUMENTS
    • THE TAI JI MEN CASE
    • TRANSLATIONS
  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • TOPICS

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

three friends of winter
Home / China / Testimonies China

Preacher’s Family in Debt After His Arrests

10/06/2018Yao Zhangjin |

sad woman
A Shaanxi house church preacher was arrested twice within a decade. As a result, his family was heavily indebted.

Jiang Bin (pseudonym), Yulin city resident in Shaanxi, was first arrested in 2005. He was a preacher at a house church and was traveling out of his hometown to spread the gospel. He was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison after that.

At the time, Mr. Jiang’s son was ill and needed medical treatment. However, his wife was forced to spend the money on bailing him out and ended up paying 22,000 RMB (about 3,300 USD) in bribes. Mr. Jiang was released eight months before the completion of his sentence.

However, a decade later, he was arrested again along with five church co-workers. The Yili police officers also looted about 130,000 RMB (almost 19,000 USD) of church’s donation money.

Once again to rescue him, his wife ended up borrowing money to hire a lawyer to defend him. The court did not allow the trial to proceed and handed out a sentence of five years in prison for “using a xie jiao (heterodox teachings) organization to undermine law enforcement.” He was also fined 20,000 RMB.

Mr. Jiang’s wife said that she had accrued over 200,000 RMB or almost 30,000 USD in debt due to her husband’s arrests and their son’s treatment. She has also been forced to support their family while Mr. Jiang is in prison.

Reported by Yao Zhangjin

Tagged With: House Churches, Xie Jiao Organizations

Yao Zhangjin profile picture
Yao Zhangjin

Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

Related articles

  • Church of the Rock: Wife of Detained Pastor Speaks Out

    Church of the Rock: Wife of Detained Pastor Speaks Out

  • China: Even Border Tourism Regulations Include Anti-Xie-Jiao Provisions

    China: Even Border Tourism Regulations Include Anti-Xie-Jiao Provisions

  • Henan Preacher Arrested for Purchasing Christian Books Online

    Henan Preacher Arrested for Purchasing Christian Books Online

  • China’s Public Security: To Protect Economy, Crack Down on Illegal Religion

    China’s Public Security: To Protect Economy, Crack Down on Illegal Religion

Keep Reading

  • Xie Jiao and Unauthorized Religion in China: Two Reports Note Growing Persecution
    Xie Jiao and Unauthorized Religion in China: Two Reports Note Growing Persecution

    Both the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the Dui Hua Foundation quote extensively from Bitter Winter.

  • Shanghai Uses Holidays to Indoctrinate Children Against “Illegal” Religion
    Shanghai Uses Holidays to Indoctrinate Children Against “Illegal” Religion

    Students in Zhuanghang Town were summoned to watch and discuss videos on “bad” religion and xie jiao.

  • Xi’an Church of Abundance: Crackdown on a Historical House Church
    Xi’an Church of Abundance: Crackdown on a Historical House Church

    After 30 years of existence, the theologically mainline church is accused of fraud and of being a xie jiao or a “cult.”

  • House Churches Attacked and Banned in Several Provinces
    House Churches Attacked and Banned in Several Provinces

    In Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Jilin, and Sichuan police raids targeted churches that refused to join the CCP-controlled Three-Self Church. Orders came from Xi Jinping himself.

Primary Sidebar

Support Bitter Winter

Learn More

Follow us

Newsletter

Most Read

  • Pro-Chinese Propaganda by The World Muslim Communities Council: Uyghurs Strike Back by Gulfiye Y
  • Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China” by Ruth Ingram
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 1. The Aesthetic Mind by Massimo Introvigne
  • Stricter Rules on Private Tutoring Protect Ideology Rather than Parents by Wang Zhipeng
  • Japan Religious Donations Law. 4. The Return of Brainwashing by Massimo Introvigne
  • Hong Kong: Christian Scholar Peng Manyuan Released but Not Rehabilitated by Gladys Kwok
  • The Weaponization of the CCP’s “Zero COVID” Against Tibet by Marco Respinti
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 3. Art as Communication by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 4. Art and Illustration by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 5. Professionals vs. Amateurs by Massimo Introvigne

CHINA PERSECUTION MAP -SEARCH NEWS BY REGION

clickable geographical map of china, with regions

Footer

Instant Exclusive News
Instant Exclusive News

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

MASSIMO INTROVIGNE

Director-in-Charge

MARCO RESPINTI

ADDRESS

CESNUR

Via Confienza 19,

10121 Turin, Italy,

Phone: 39-011-541950

E-MAIL

We welcome submission of unpublished contributions, news, and photographs. Each submission implies the authorization for us to edit and publish texts and photographs. We reserve the right to decide which submissions are suitable for publication. Please, write to INFO@BITTERWINTER.ORG Thank you.

Newsletter

Follow us

LINKS

orlir-logo hrwf-logo cesnur-logo

Copyright © 2023 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY