Over a hundred Christians from a charismatic house church in Inner Mongolia were beaten by the local armed police while they were in a gathering in July 2017. One elderly believer approaching eighty fainted after being tased, four others were forcibly arrested. Two of...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 A house church leader from the Wanfu Office in the city of Heze, Shandong Province, was forcibly taken away from his home by the police in the summer of 2013 and was subjected to brutal torture and long-term...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 30, 2018 A house church leader was forcibly arrested in Longxi County, Dingxi city, Gansu Province in April of 2015. He died in a detention center after prolonged torture. Lin Suidan (45) was a house church leader in Longxi...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 28, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest and detention of seven Christians from a house church in the city of Meihekou, Jilin Province, two years ago. They were sent to a conversion class to undergo intense...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 28, 2018 The Shanghai police arrested five Christians from two house churches in April and May. All of them remain in custody. On April 25, 2018, the police detained and arrested Chen Wenfang, a 58-year-old Christian with a...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 On July 3, 2017, two members of an underground house church in Yuncheng city, Shanxi Province were arrested by the police on their way home from sharing the Gospel in Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City. They were then...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 An elderly house church Christian was arrested and detained in the city of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, on June 22, 2017. A year later, she is still not released, and her family has not been allowed to see her for the...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Chinese Communist Party authorities ordered to remove crosses from multiple churches in Henan Province’s Gongyi city in April and May. Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force on February 1,...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 The police burst into the meeting place of a house church in Hubei Province’s Yanji town, the city of Ezhou, and arrested six Christians who were having a meeting, without any explanation and proper documentation....