Local booksellers in Zhejiang were taken into detention for selling books on religion. In May 2018, the authorities sent in more than ten police officers to arrest a bookseller in Zhejiang’s Taizhou city. Qiao Qin (pseudonym) was charged with the crime of running...
As part of the recent crackdown on religion, one of the top CCP officials visited Tibet and demanded absolute loyalty from monks—or else Wang Yang, regarded as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s fourth highest ranking official, visited Tibet on August 26 and 27, and...
A temple in Zhejiang was destroyed, and the believers were driven out in a CCP backed action. In November 2016, the local secretary of Duqiao Party Committee, Chen Jinguo, assembled a 700 strong force to break down a cave temple. The contingent included personnel from...
The dwellings at a Buddhist gathering place in Kunming city were demolished by the Chinese law enforcement, dispersing dozens of Buddhists. At 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, over 40 Buddhists were reciting scripture in a tent on a small mountain in...
Local authorities in Yunnan resorted to trickery to illegally demolish a temple. In the last week of June, a Buddhist temple in Yunnan Province’s Suijiang county fell prey to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continuing assault on religious faith. The deputy...
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...
Venerable Xuecheng, the abbott of Beijing’s Longquan Temple and the President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, a staunch supporter of the CCP, is investigated for sexual abuse. Is the CCP protecting Xuecheng or trying to get rid of him for political reasons? On...
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...
Monks aged 15 and under in the Tibetan-populated region of Sichuan are forced to leave their monasteries, and Chinese authorities place them in government-run schools, reports Radio Free Asia. According to a source, the Chinese government has started to expel young...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 In recent months, Chinese authorities closed down many Buddhist temples in Henan Province’s Gongyi city. In late March 2018, more than a thousand-year-old Luohan Temple in Jiajinkou town was forcibly closed down as...