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...
Religious Liberty
The Denial of Religious Freedom in China Is A Challenge to the Whole World
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...
Christians Suffer Increased Persecution in Hechi, Guangxi
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...
Authorities Ordered Churches to Report on Congregations in Henan
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,...
Four Christians Arrested in Hubei Province, One Remains in Custody
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...
Four Foreign Missionaries Deported After Being Detained for Fifteen Days
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...
Armed Police Arrested Forty-Eight Shouters, Five Sentenced to Prison Time
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...
A Nearly Completed Church Demolished in Henan
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...
Police Looted a Christian Couple’s Home, Detaining Them for Their Faith
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...
Three Christians From the Same Family Arrested and Imprisoned, One Remain in Custody
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.




