A video shows congregants praying on the site of a demolished government-controlled Three-Self church in Henan. In the afternoon of June 11, 2018, authorities completely demolished a government-controlled Three-Self church in Shuangmiao village, Taohe township,...
The local government forcibly destroyed a Three-Self church in a village of Henan Province for being taller than the local committee building. Authorities of the Zhaihouchen village of Jian’an district in the city of Xuchang demolished a government-approved Three-Self...
Even government-controlled Three-Self churches are not safe from the demolition campaign: the Baofeng church in Jiangxi was falsely declared unsafe and demolished. Since President Xi Jinping took office, many churches have been demolished, or their crosses have been...
Over the past few months, government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches in various locations in Henan Province have either been shut down or forced to take down their crosses. After the crosses of the Central Church in the town of Wolong and Bo’ai Church in the...
Local authorities of the city of Lingbao threaten to forcibly demolish churches if they do not take down their crosses. According to unofficial calculations, since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect on February 1, 2018, at least 13 religious...
In the early morning hours of June 9, 2015, the crosses of two Three-Self churches – Huyuan Church and Yaokou Church – were secretly demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government. Both churches are located in Huyuan Township, Chang’an town, Fuyang...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Authorities in the city of Handan, Hebei Province, sent notifications to forty government-controlled Three-Self churches threatening to demolish their buildings, an informed source told Bitter Winter. The crackdown...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Local authorities mobilized over one hundred officers to demolish a newly-built place of worship of the Three-Self Church in Xingcun town in the city of Wuyishan, Fujian Province. This was the first church in the...
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,...
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...