The church’s pastor was detained and the believers were prohibited from congregating at the venue again. On September 9, over 100 believers were in a congregation at a house church in Henan’s Xinyang city when they were ambushed by moreRead More →
Authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang have detained a Catholic bishop, weeks after an agreement between Beijing and the Holy See aimed to unify the state-sponsored and Vatican-endorsed, underground churches in China. Bishop Peter (in Italian, Pietro) Shao ofRead More →
Officials at a university in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are forcing students and staff to forgo their Muslim dietary restrictions in favor of traditionally pork-heavy Han Chinese cuisine, saying halal food is associated with religious extremism. A reportRead More →
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 →
