Religious Book Leads to Arrests of Many “Shouters”
A religious book found by the police in the home of a Christian has led to the successive arrests and detentions of multiple believers.
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Elderly Believer Persecuted Throughout Life
Authorities have kept a close watch on an elderly Christian and harassed him one way or other all his life.
Authorities Organized Arrests of Christians in Anhui Province
Inside sources revealed that authorities organized an operation in March to arrest Christians in the city of Suzhou in Anhui Province.
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.
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 forty-eight believers. Five co-workers of the Church were sentenced to prison terms.
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 their gathering place. The arrested, four church leaders among them, were […]
Local Church Leader in Jilin Arrested Twice in One Year
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 22, 2018 Hao Qingguo is the leader of all the congregations of the Shouters, an Evangelical Christian group known in the West as the Local Church, in Jilin Province. In February 2018, the 59-year-old priest was arrested when he got off the train in the province’s city of […]
Three Shouters’ Leaders From Shandong Persecuted For Years
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 18, 2018 Three leaders of the Shouters Christian community in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, have been persecuted and arrested over the time period of a few years. Their stories serve as examples of Chinese government’s crackdown on religious minorities that has recently intensified.
Communist Party Monitors and Persecutes Shouters’ Church in Jiangsu Province
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Bitter Winter has received reports of continuous harassment of communities of the Shouters, Christians, in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, that the Chinese Government has been targeting for a long time. Christians in the same tradition are known in the West […]