The Chinese police launched a national operation against Bitter Winter. Reporters and others who sent information to us were arrested, while false rumors about our magazine are being spread We received reports from China that, irritated by the publication of news and...
The idea of human rights is founded on the principle of natural rights. But official Chinese human rights principles state that human rights are rights given by society to the individual. by Aaron Rhodes This text was presented as a speech at the seminar Freedom of...
Local government and law enforcement have raided many religious venues and arrested believers in the city's Dahua and Donglan counties in previous months. On June 6, 2018, six officials, including court employees and police officers from the Public Security Bureau of...
Some dioceses of the government-controlled Patriotic Catholic Church in Henan Province informed of having received notices from municipal authorities requesting them to collect data on the backgrounds of their congregations, especially those from poor families,...
On June 6, 2018, four Christians from a house Church in the city of Yicheng, Hubei Province were arrested by police and had their homes searched. To date, one of them is still being held illegally. On June 6 at a little past 2 p.m., 54-year-old Christian Sun Zhen...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 8, 2018 Japanese and South Korean missionaries were deported from China on May 17 and were prohibited from entering the country for five years. Before the deportation, they were kept in detention for fifteen days. At night...
On May 21, 2017, the Public Security Bureau of the city of Jimo, Shandong Province, united multiple local police stations, dispatched more than twenty squad cars and over seventy armed police officers and raided a local Shouters meeting site, forcibly detaining...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 On June 13, authorities demolished a church nearing completion in the village of Huangzhuyuan in Henan Province. A four-storied building of 2,000 square-meters that cost over 1.1 million RMB to build has been...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raided the home of a Christian couple in Beigucheng town, Yiliang County, Yunnan Province’s Kunming city, in October 2017. Without a warrant, the police confiscated large amounts of...
The Chinese Communist Party police arrested three Christians from the same family in Tianfan town, Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, in 2015. The daughter is still in custody.