The Guangdong-based house church ministers have been called in for questioning and threatened for putting their names on the document. On August 30, house church pastors, ministers, and elders signed a joint statement denouncing the Chinese government’s persecution of...
Officials have been working in the background to sustain a conflict between believers and local villagers. Because of this, a government-controlled Three-Self church remains closed today.
The province in the east of China is home to the second-largest population of Christians in China, most of whom are concentrated in the cities of Fuyang and Liu’an.
The National Security Bureau in Liaoning’s Dalian city has set quotas of arrested believers for local police stations as part of their work assessment plan.
Authorities in Henan are now forcing believers to replace portraits of Jesus with that of Chinese leaders at their homes.
In the province’s Zhaoyuan city, the authorities have brought back the infamous one-hundred-day campaign against “cults.”
Authorities forced them to give up their religious belief by threatening to cut off their subsistence allowance and pension subsidies.
A Christian man from Gansu was arrested four years ago for his religious belief. He has completed his sentence but continues to be monitored by authorities.
Authorities are demanding to disclose the religious beliefs of employees and their family members, thus, restricting and endangering their job and social stability.
Officials are implementing a variety of new anti-religious activities, including the repurposing of religious venues, mobilizing relatives to “transform” believers, as well as extensive anti-religious propaganda campaigns.