A government-approved Protestant church in Henan was shut down earlier this year on the grounds of its proximity to a school. On April 30, the local government of Mangshan town in Henan’s Yongcheng city shut down a church that is affiliated with the Protestant...
A government official in Shandong disrupted a religious gathering so violently that some of the congregants are now living in fear. In June, over ten elderly Christians were congregating at the home of Li Qiang (pseudonym) in Shandong’s Chiping county. Suddenly, the...
After the local police forcibly removed their churches’ crosses, believers traveled to Beijing to talk to the central authorities but were sent back and later detained. In May 2015, local public security officers forcibly removed crosses from multiple churches in...
The authorities arrested believers at the site of Sanjiang Church in Zhejiang Province who were observing a moment of silence to commemorate the church’s demolition four years ago. The Sanjiang Church in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou city was demolished using explosives in April...
Local authorities in Xinjiang’s Manas county arrested four people after a villager reported about their whereabouts. In late March, a man ventured into a village to run some errands. A villager identified him as being the son of a local house church leader, Liu Zhang...
Local authorities in Shandong raid a Christian gathering place and illegally detain a pastor. On July 29, seven police officers in Shandong’s Zibo city raided a sola fide gathering. Also known as justification by faith alone, sola fide is a Christian theological...
The group included 28 underage students and were meeting in a remote area when the police detained them. On July 18, Xie Biao, a pastor with Justification by Faith church, organized religious summer camp in a remote forest in Sichuan’s Langzhong city. The group was...
Hundreds of Christians from across China were arrested during a large religious gathering in Hubei Province. A Christian named Xu Meilan from a house church in Xian’an High-Tech Development Zone, Xianning city, Hubei Province, invited more than 500 Christians from her...
The police apprehended four elderly house church Christians in Sichuan. One of them, fearing the authorities would cancel his subsistence allowance, attempted to kill himself. On April 6, 2017, the head of the local police station of Mianyang city, Sichuan Province...
A Christian man who was arrested and became half immobile due to torture was forced to return to prison. In October 2015, officers from a local police station in Inner Mongolia’s Wulanhaote city arrested Wang Qiang for his Christian faith (pseudonym). He was sentenced...