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Bitter Winter

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Christian Faith in China

Christian faith is banned in Xi Jinping’s China and believers are persecuted and jailed.

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The study session at Shaanxi Bible School. From Weibo.

06/07/2023 Zhang Chunhua

Christian Students Asked to Study 20th Congress and Celebrate “Heroes” Who Betrayed the Church

Shaanxi Bible School held a study session on the CCP Congress. It also honored an early pro-CCP bishop and two “revolutionary heroes” who were raised as Christians.

A moment of the inspection at Zhejiang Theological Seminary. From Weibo.

05/25/2023 Zhang Chunhua

China: Theological Seminaries Inspected to Check How “Sinicized” They Are

The 2021 regulations call for devoting at least 30% of classroom time to study Marxism and Xi Jinping’s thought. Inspections are now making sure they are obeyed.

A view of Hohhot’s Huimin District. Credits.

05/16/2023 Fang Yongrui

Hohhot Bible Trial: Defendants Charged with “Collusion with Foreign Forces”

Heavy jail penalties are sought against Christians who purchased “legal” Bibles from the Three-Self Church but distributed them “illegally” as part of house church activities.

An image of the Taiyuan symposium. From Weibo.

05/05/2023 Qi Junzao

Taiyuan Pastors Told to Teach Christians to “Always Follow the Party”

A plan for church activities hardly includes anything Christian, and calls for studying and teaching the works of Marx and Xi Jinping, and the CCP official documents.

A view of Zhenxiong County. Credits.

04/28/2023 Li Xiaosi

The Small Church That Disturbed the CCP: Preacher Chang Hao Detained in Yunnan

He had what looked like a good idea and distributed anti-COVID masks with Bible verses. The police did not appreciate it. 

Uyghur children living in the Yerken orphanage.

04/27/2023 Ruth Ingram

April 27, 1933: How Young Habil Became the First Uyghur Christian Martyr

Uyghur Christians fan the flame of the death of the first of their number ninety years on.

The Bengbu Prison, Anhui. From Weibo.

04/24/2023 Wang Zhipeng

Bengbu Dissident Christian Pastor Arrested  

Pastor Wan Changchun was one of the signatories of  the 2018 statement of protest against the new Religious Affairs Regulation.

The People’s Court of Huimin District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.

03/30/2023 Fang Yongrui

Hohhot Trial of Christians Who Illegally Sold Legal Bibles Scheduled for Late April

Wang Honglan and other Inner Mongolia believer risk 15 years in jail for selling Bibles that were regularly printed by a government-authorized publisher.

A view of Chengdu: modernization cannot hide the repression. Credits.

03/08/2023 Qi Junzao

Another Difficult Sunday for Chengdu’s Early Rain Church 

The rental of premises where the service should be held on Sunday March 5 was cancelled on Saturday night, and the police prevented several believers from leaving home.

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