Stories of three elderly Chinese Christians in Jilin Province and how they were persecuted for their belief. In the spring of 2015, Xiao Hong arrived home from the Tumen city market when three police officers apprehended her in plain clothes. She was arrested without...
A previously arrested member of a Christian house church moved to a different province hoping to evade future persecutions, but authorities tracked her down. Zhang Pei (pseudonym), a Christian with a house church in Neijiang city, Sichuan Province had her home raided...
In a tactic that is reminiscent of Cultural Revolution, people of Christian faith were publicly humiliated by parading them in streets. During China’s Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s to 1970s, a large number of people who were seen as violators of any kind by...
Xin Shoudao from Henan Province has been left impoverished after paying hefty amounts in fines in the past one year to the Chinese government. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has resorted to various methods of torture and persecution of...
Released after completing a three-year sentence for her belief, a Christian comes home with serious health problems. Wang Ping (pseudonym) who was arrested in April 2015 has recently been released after completing her three-year sentence at the Yuci Women’s Prison in...
Five house church members from Qingdao, Shandong Province were sentenced to a year and four months in prison and continue to be persecuted after their release. On May 22, 2016, the police raided a house church in the Yifengdian town, Jimo city, Qingdao, Shandong and...
Authorities have been persecuting the school for over two decades, forcing its constant relocation. Various Christian movements and religious groups in China have opened up private schools where classes on religions are taught alongside the regular curriculum. Due to...
A couple who belonged to a house church in Xiaogan city, Hubei Province was monitored for a long time before their arrest. On May 10, 2018, the home of Chen Jie (pseudonym) and her husband, both members of a house church in Xiaogan City in Hubei Province, was forcibly...
On July 25, 2014, over 10,000 people took part in the demolition of the cross from the Wenling Church in Zhejiang Province. A distinctive clock tower stands on the Chengguan Church in Wenling, Taizhou city, Zhejiang, on which once towered a bright red cross. Today,...
A detained believers’ couple in Jilin Province has learned that the police were issued quotas for arresting the Christians. In the morning of March 2, 2018, Christian Zhang Li used his ID card to buy a train ticket in a town in Songyuan city, Jilin Province. Because...