China’s southeastern province continues to intensify religious persecution measures after coronavirus lockdown measures were lifted.
Local Church in China
Churches with Foreign Ties Suppressed, Pastors Deported
The CCP treats any link the Chinese believers have with abroad as “foreign infiltration” that threatens its regime. Any such tie is investigated and severed.
Local Church, Shouters, Assembly: Who’s Who in the Watchman Nee Tradition
An interview with J. Gordon Melton, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary religion, who explains the differences between the different groups in the tradition of Chinese Protestant preacher Witness Lee.
Local Church Leader Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
The leader of a Chinese religious movement was detained and later imprisoned. The Local Church, also known in China as the “Shouters, which the Chinese authorities listed as xie jiao in 1995. This non-denominational movement was started in 1927 by Ni Tuosheng or...
Believers Persecuted for Possession of Religious Books
Since the end of March, the Chinese authorities have forbidden the sales of the Bible online and restricted the distribution of religious literature, closing down numerous sellers. Individuals who ordered religious texts have also been apprehended and monitored. On...
Six Local Church Christians Arrested, Preacher Still Detained
A Local Church preacher and five other Christians were arrested; the preacher has been kept in custody for over eight months. On November 19, Li Huazhang’s, 76, a preacher of a Local Church and five other Christians were arrested in Fuyang city, Anhui Province, on...
Police Use Funeral to Capture Local Church Preacher
Law enforcement officers apprehended an Evangelical preacher during her father-in-law’s funeral. While preacher Ding Lijuan (pseudonym) of the Local Church in Jiaozuo city, Henan, was making funeral arrangements for her father-in-law, she was arrested by the Chinese...
Shouters’ Preacher Hunted by Communist Party for Years
On the run for over ten years, preacher Shi Yuliang from Zhejiang Province is unable to come home, and his family is constantly harassed by the police. The 49-year-old preacher, Shi Yuliang (pseudonym), from Ningbo, Zhejiang, was arrested in the city of Guangzhou in...
Local Church Co-Worker Sentenced to Four Years for Storing Church Literature
Wang Zhaogang (pseudonym, 53) was a co-worker in the Local Church and owned his own factory in the Lanshan District of Shandong Province’s Linyi city. In June 2014, the police closed down his factory under a pretext of conducting a tax inspection. While searching the...
Twenty-Five Shouters Arrested in Xinjiang
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 23, 2018 Twenty-five members of the Shouters church in Xinjiang’s Kuitun city were arrested on March 14, 2017, when six officers from the local Public Security Bureau and police station broke down the door and charged into...