A place of worship in Taiyuan city was forcibly shut down for “disturbing public order,” its congregation members taken away for interrogation.
House Churches
Looting House Churches to Prevent Their Resurgence
To ensure that congregations have no means to reopen closed down places of worship, CCP is confiscating their assets and burning Bibles and religious symbols.
Taizhou, Zhejiang: House Church Believers Prepared to Be Arrested for Their Faith
Unapproved Protestant churches are bracing for more crackdowns, as local officials are planning a new round of suppression in the second half of the year.
Crackdown on Christianity in Jilin: Over 100 Church Crosses Removed
Clergy and congregation members from state-approved and house churches alike worry that the persecution of Christianity is only going to escalate.
Shanxi’s House Churches Closed for Suspected Foreign Ties
Any association with overseas religionists is one of the many popular pretexts for the CCP to eliminate the places of worship refusing to join Three-Self Church.
CCP’s Tricks to Eliminate House Churches
Two preachers disclose a plethora of government’s methods to gather information, later used to persecute the religious: bribes, threats, manipulations, and more.
Punished for Not Joining the Official Protestant Church
Over the past two months, at least a dozen of house church meeting venues were forcibly closed down in the province of Hubei, Fujian, and Liaoning.
Xunsiding Church Closed After Months of Harassment
A nearly 70-year-old and one of the most influential house churches in Fujian Province ceased to function on May 31; the church’s pastor heavily fined.
Chinese Authorities Shut Down House Church After 14 Years of Persecution
The Fuzhou Reformed House Church has been shut down by the authorities for refusing to join the Three-Self Church.
More House Churches Succumb to Persecution
Protestant meeting venues in Zhejiang and Fujian were demolished or closed down deemed as illegal or their land needed for government’s purposes.