The infamous social credit system invades places of worship, as state-run churches and temples are evaluated with points, some closed down for being “substandard.”Read More →
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have released a woman incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for splashing ink on a poster of China’s President Xi Jinping in a live-streamed protest on social media.Read More →
The government closed down over 100 meeting venues in the Archdiocese of Fuzhou, which are run by priests who continue to resist joining the Patriotic Church.Read More →
Disguised as a tool “to fight crime,” the forced collection of DNA data spreads across China. Even primary and middle school students are not exempt.Read More →
More than a million people took to the streets of Hong Kong on New Year’s Day in a resounding reminder to the city authorities that the past six months of pro-democracy protests will continue into 2020.Read More →
Under the pretext of “religious infiltration,” the CCP’s crackdown against religious groups has hit again the oldest community of Jews in the country.Read More →
The new provisions will be in force from February 1, 2020. They reinforce the already restrictive regulation of 2017 and order all religions to “spread the principles of the CCP.”Read More →
Protests continued in several districts of Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve, with thousands of people chanting “Free Hong Kong! Revolution in our time!” as the city counted down the last seconds of 2019.Read More →
To cultivate loyal and submissive followers, CCP institutes “red patriotism” courses venerating China’s revolutionary past for children in kindergartens.Read More →
A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Monday handed down a nine-year jail term to Wang Yi, the Protestant pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church. Wang, who founded the church, was detained by police in Sichuan’sRead More →
Protestant house churches, regarded as a threat to the regime due to large numbers of believers, face total extinction, people threatened to give up their faith.Read More →
China on Friday denied reports that the jailed former head of Xinjiang University Tashpolat Teyip had been tried and sentenced to death, a day after the United Nations expressed concern over his case and demanded clarification on his situation.Read More →
Bitter Winter visited two residential communities in Shihezi city that bear traces of the CCP’s brutal suppression of ethnic Huis.Read More →
The wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang saw no improvement in his mental state when she visited him in prison on Thursday, she told RFA.Read More →
Ahead of the central government inspection, local authorities “sinicize” temples by destroying traditional Tibetan stupas, drive away spiritual leaders.Read More →
School students in China are increasingly imbued with communist ideology, as the government intensifies their “patriotic education.”Read More →
In July 2018, Christian Liu Jun was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party for his faith. In April 2019, disregarding his serious condition, the CCP once again arrested and detained him, causing a rapid decline in his health. Due to the delay in receiving treatment, Liu Jun passed away on August 10 of the same year at just 21 years of age.Read More →
Authorities in the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Hunan have detained two activists who showed open support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.Read More →
The clergy who refuse to be controlled by the state are harassed by authorities, subjected to indoctrination to make them join the Patriotic Church.Read More →
It’s 600 years from the death of the revered Buddhist master, Lama Tsongkhapa. Tibetans, however, were severely restricted from celebrating the anniversary.Read More →
When she was 24 years old in 2013, she was arrested by the CCP and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months because of her faith in God. In September 2019, she received another sentence of 12 years’ imprisonment on the same charge and is still in prison as of now.Read More →
