Hymns and music should be “de-Westernized” and incorporate “red” elements, participants at a training seminar in Xiamen were told.
Christian Faith in China
Zhu Bin: Co-founder of Christian School Released on Bail but Kept Under Surveillance
The well-known activist is free from jail—but not from harassment.
Yunnan, Update on Brother Chang Hao: Sentenced, Liberated, and Detained Again
The popular preacher was baptizing new Christians with famous Pastor John Cao when the police raided the gathering on October 15.
Zhu Bin: Christian School Founder Detained in Beijing
After years of harassment, the fiercely independent educator, dissident, and poet was arrested on September 29.
A Chinese Christian Tortured in Jail Tells His Story
Zhu Chunlin’s testimony explains what “strict control and punishment” and “strengthened learning” mean in Chinese prisons: torture.
China, Government-Controlled Three-Self Church Celebrates 70th Anniversary
The national symposium was more than a celebration. It instructed Christian pastors to hail in their sermons the recent Third Plenary Session of the CCP Central Committee.
China, “Strict Governance of Religion” Imposed on Christians
A new slogan calls for a closer supervision of preachers and sermons by both Three Self bureaucrats and the United Front.
Street Evangelist Chen Wensheng Sentenced Again
He received a comparatively mild sentence (one year and seven months) but the authorities’s strategy is to keep arresting him (he was arrested more than 100 times).
Yan Zhengxue: Persecuted Chinese Christian Artist Dies at Age 80
A key figure of the dissident artist movement and a member of the Beijing Holy Love Fellowship House Church, he was repeatedly detained and tortured.
Hefei’s Ganquan Church: Wives Call for Release of Pastor Zhou, Elder Ding
The two Christian leaders falsely accused of fraud suffer of diseases that cannot be treated in jail, families say.