Their son reports about the difficult life in jail of the Xi’an couple sentenced to seven years for printing Christian books
Christian Faith in China
China’s Religious Freedom Crisis Escalates: Christian Churches Face Comprehensive Suppression
A summary of the growing persecution in the last few years of Protestant house churches, dissident Catholics, and Christian new religious movements.
China, Christians Told They Should “Sinicize” Music Too
Hymns and music should be “de-Westernized” and incorporate “red” elements, participants at a training seminar in Xiamen were told.
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).