Ⅰ. Executive Summary In 2025, China’s economy deteriorated across the board. Foreign-funded enterprises withdrew in large numbers, factories and businesses closed throughout the provinces, unemployment surged, and countless ordinary citizens struggled to meet even their most basic living needs.Read More →
— More Than 19,000 CAG Christians Arrested and Persecuted in 2025 On February 13, 2026, The Church of Almighty God (CAG) officially released its Annual Report Exposing the CCP’s Persecution of The Church of Almighty God (2025) (hereinafter referred toRead More →
By 2030, Xinjiang will build six more specialized hospitals. Why, given that the region has a very low organ donation rate? On July 3, the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) raised alarms about a worrying trend:Read More →
1. Overview In 2024, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued advancing its campaign for the “Sinicization” of religion. On January 1, it enacted the Patriotic Education Law of the People’s Republic of China1, further tightening its control and suppressionRead More →
Today, February 7, 2024, The Church of Almighty God (CAG) released its 2023 Annual Report on the Chinese Communist Government’s (CCP) Persecution of The Church of Almighty God. At least 12,463 CAG Christians were arrested in 2023, with 2,207 sentencedRead More →
4056 Cases of Arbitrary Arrest and Detention of CAG Christians by CCP (Updated on FEB. 5 2023) Read More →
1. Overview 1.1 The CCP Continued Its Religious Persecution Through the 2020 COVID-19 Epidemic The Chinese Communist Party’s coverup of the novel coronavirus put the entire world in peril in 2020. In the face of this disaster, asRead More →
Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region recently announced a campaign aimed at stamping out rumors and misinformation, but Tibet analysts say that its true purpose is to stifle freedom of expression, especially among advocates of Tibetan independence.Read More →
It is learned that so far more than 40 CAG Christians have suffered the CCP’s arrest and persecution after return to China. Among them, one was brutally tortured to the point of disability; one was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment; one was held in indoctrination center and unaccounted for; many went missing after return to China, and their whereabouts are still unknown. But here we only expose ten cases. Considering the safety of those Christians and their family members in China, we use pseudonym in these cases. Read More →
6,132 CAG members have been arrested in China in 2019. 3,824 have been tortured, and 19 died as a result of the persecution. These are some of the figures of the third yearly report about its persecution in China.Read More →
China’s new show trials, and the global expansion of Chinese media (2018). Edited by Peter Dahlin. Through the use of first-person accounts from victims, this book explains in detail how China’s forced TV confessions are made and exposes the active role China’s state media has played in creating them via its collaboration with police. Read More →
Scripted and Staged: Behind the scenes of China’s forced TV confessions (2018). This groundbreaking and illustrated report was the first of its kind to expose the reality behind China’s Forced TV Confessions that have been beamed around the world on China’s state TV channel CGTN. Read More →
Battered and Bruised: Why torture continues to stand at the heart of China’s judicial system (2018). This report is based on research conducted by a group of Chinese lawyers with experience trying to protect their clients from torture and to secure the disqualification of confessions procured through torture. Battered and Bruised documents commonly practiced torture methods and why the country’s legal system continues to fail to prevent its use.Read More →
Fighting Impunity: A guide on how civil society can use Magnitsky Acts to sanction human rights violators (2020). The first-ever comprehensive guide, based on candid and anonymous interviews with diplomats, government officials, and study of past work with submitting human rights violators for sanctions. Offers step by step guidance on how to file violators for sanctioning using best practice methods. (1-page spread edition)Read More →
ADCHRRF-Religious Freedom in China : The case of The Church of Almighty God
Joint Submission by Center for Studies on Freedom of Religion Belief and Conscience (LIREC); Association for the Defense of Human Rights and Religious Freedom (ADHRRF)Read More →
3636 Cases of Arbitrary Arrest and Detention of CAG Christians by CCP (Updated on FEB. 13 2022) Read More →
The United States recognizes the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan autonomous prefectures and counties in other provinces to be part of the People’s Republic of China. Read More →
This separate section on Xinjiang is included given the scope and severity of reported religious freedom violations specific to the region this year.Read More →
Since 1999, China has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. Read More →
The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is a new Christian church in China. Since its establishment in 1991, it has suffered frantic suppression and severe persecution at the hands of the CCP. Read More →
1. Christian Xie Yongjiang Tortured to Death by Chinese Communist Police 2. Christian Zhan Hongmei Brutally Beaten to Death by Chinese Communist Police 3. Christian Gao Cuiqin Electrocuted to Death by Chinese Communist Police 4. Church Leader He ChengrongRead More →
