Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers, CESNUR Date: June 27, 2018 The situation of religious liberty in China is the worst ever since the Cultural Revolution. At least one and a half million believers are in jail or in “Transformation Through Education” camps simply...
Religious Liberty
House Church Christian Detained for a Year, Family not Allowed to See Her
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...
Church Crosses Taken Down All Over Gongyi, Henan Province
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,...
Believers Protect Their Church From Demolition Day and Night
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 26, 2018 Since late May, authorities of Yegang town, Minquan County, Henan Province, have repeatedly tried to demolish a Three-Self Church in the village of Bawo. The congregation is guarding the church day and night. As...
Arrested a Year Ago, House Church Leader Still Missing
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....
Elderly Christian Dies After Intense Indoctrination
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2018 A house church Christian in her early 80s died after persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Forced to attend an overnight indoctrination class without food or sleep, the woman collapsed and died two days...
Printing House Raided and Fined for Religious Literature
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 25, 2015 A printing house in Liaoning Province is being persecuted by Chinese authorities for printing religious literature. In late November 2017, the Communist Party police organized a thriller-like raid of the printing...
House Church Leader Forced to Flee Fearing Arrest
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Surveilled and chased after by the Communist Party authorities for her religious beliefs, 49-year-old house church leader from Huancui District in the city of Weihai, Shandong Province was forced to flee her home...
Images: Destruction of the Way of the Cross in Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Bitter Winter reported earlier about the destruction of a Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in Henan Province. In the evening of June 5, officials ordered excavators and other heavy machinery to destroy the monuments...
Police Interrogated Teenagers for WeChat Message With “Religious” Content
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Five students from the Gongyi City First Secondary Professional School in Henan Province were taken to a police station for sharing a humorous message with "religious" content on WeChat - highly popular instant...


