In a new move aimed at bringing Tibetan Buddhist monasteries more closely under the control of the Chinese state, authorities are now grooming carefully chosen monks to learn and represent the views of the ruling Communist Party, a rights groupRead More →
Authorities in China have slapped a travel ban on more than 100 Protestant Christians en route to a religious training event in South Korea, RFA has learned. State security police at airports in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou issued the travelRead More →
On September 23, Longtian Catholic Church, which is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fuzhou, was holding a solemn mass when over 10 local plainclothes police officers suddenly broke into the church and arrested Father Lin Jing’en. The mass was forced to stop.Read More →
A Christian woman was first refused her medication, and later, the police swapped it. That caused her further medical problems. In June, Feng Suqin (pseudonym) was arrested from her home in Shaanxi’s Ankang city for being a member of TheRead More →
Even members of government-approved churches are not speared harassment from authorities and seek refuge in other provinces of China where the crackdown on religion is less intense. As a region with one of the largest population of Christians in EastRead More →
The police made fourteen detained Hui Muslims defy their cultural and religious traditions as a means of psychological torture. In July 2018, the local police arrested an imam and 13 Muslims from a mosque in Gansu Province. They were detainedRead More →
The lessons were interpreted as being a “conspiracy against the state.” As a result, the Hui kindergarten was forced to drop the course. Bitter Winter recently spoke to a Hui woman in Gansu’s Lanzhou city, who talked about how localRead More →
Authorities hired over 100 men to demolish a government-controlled Protestant Tree-Self church in Shenyang city; about eighty of them were dressed in black and had masks over their faces.Read More →
As per new legislation, over 150 congregation sites in this Hebei Province’s city are waiting to be approved by the government and have ceased their activities. On June 1, the State Administration for Religious Affairs issued a document entitled MeasuresRead More →
The provincial government in Henan has called for monitoring of the flow of funds at all government-controlled churches under its jurisdiction. As per internal document adopted by the Henan Province’s authorities in July this year, Compilation of Special Operation ExemplaryRead More →
