A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Read the Severe Persecution of Christians in China.
The label xie jiao, reserved for banned “heterodox teachings,” is now increasingly applied to “normal” house churches.
Brother Zhao Weikai has been arrested on May 17. The house church in Taiyuan (China) has been repeatedly harassed in the last few months.
Beijing’s Zion Church, Renai Church in Guiyang, and Early Rain in Chengdu continue to be under attack.
China Aid focused on house church Christians persecuted in China, USCIRF singled out 14 countries, insisting for a tougher stand on Russia.
Guiyang Renai Reformed Church organized private meetings in a hotel room. After a police raid, three members and the elder were arrested.
Local authorities raid and close places of worship using various pretexts, from poverty alleviation to epidemic prevention.
Both Three-Self and house church venues have been demolished under various pretexts in Shaanxi, Anhui, and other provinces. Exclusive videos and pictures from Bitter Winter.
Unregistered Protestant venues are monitored by plainclothes police officers and residential communities’ managers before their churches are raided and closed.
Authorities intimidate property owners and hotel managers who allow unregistered religious groups to hold religious gatherings.
Numerous venues were shut down, believers arrested and dispersed in August across Henan, Guizhou, and Fujian provinces.
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