Coordinated Arrests Sweep Zion Church: Nearly 30 Pastors and Co-Workers Detained Across China
The massive operation is one of the largest against house churches in recent years. Since October 9,...Read More
2025-10-13
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The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 5. The Red Octopus’s Seventh Tentacle: Arresting Those Who Return to China
When it finally succeeds in bringing refugees back to Chinese territory, the CCP arrests, sentences,...Read More
2025-09-05
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 3. The Red Octopus’s Third Tentacle: “Family Reunification” Operations
The third of seven methods used by the CCP to harass CAG asylum seekers: compelling their relatives ...Read More
2025-09-03
Chinese Christian Media Ordered to Include More Communist Propaganda
China’s only legal church, the Communist Party-controlled Three Self Patriotic Movement (TPSM), has ...Read More
2025-05-10
China, “Strict Governance of Religion” Imposed on Christians
A new slogan calls for a closer supervision of preachers and sermons by both Three Self bureaucrats ...Read More
2024-07-10
Christian Imprisoned, Tortured for Her Belief
Li Xiaoyang (pseudonym), female, born in 1976, is a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in...Read More
2022-02-16
Christian Dies During 4-Year Detention for His Faith in God
Chu Qingming (pseudonym), male, born in 1971, a resident of the eastern province of Shandong, was a ...Read More
2022-01-20
Christian Dies of Illness from Mistreatment in Custody After Arrested for His Faith
Hu Zhibin (pseudonym), male, born in 1953, was a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in th...Read More
2022-01-20
Christian Dies of Illness from Suspected Mistreatment in Prison
Qin Dafu, male, born on April 24, 1963, resident of Chongqing municipality in the southwestern China...Read More
2021-12-26
Li Chenggang and His Wife Wanted by CCP for Their Belief in Almighty God
Li Chenggang, born in 1973, and his wife Zhang Jingxi, born in 1969, residents of Zaozhuang city in ...Read More
2021-12-15
Christian Wu Yuezhen Died Ten Years After Her Condition Worsened for Forced Suspension of Medicine in Labor Camp
Wu Yuezhen, female, born in June 1963, resident of Dengfeng city in the central province of Henan, j...Read More
2021-07-26
Church of Almighty God: 750 Arrested in Three Months
Between January and March 2021, in Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan, and other provinces, devotees were arres...Read More
2021-04-28
Christian Couple Given Hefty Sentences for Belief: Mistreatment in Custody Causes Death of Wife and Disability of Husband
Zhang Jian (pseudonym), male, born in 1948, and his wife, Liu Mei (pseudonym), born in 1950, are res...Read More
2021-03-25
Christian Mistreated, Tormented for Refusing to Give Up Belief
In July 2020, Li Huizhen (pseudonym), a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG), was finally g...Read More
2021-03-15
Heavier Sentences for Church of Almighty God Members
As part of the campaign aimed at eradicating the movement, jail terms have been substantially increa...Read More
2021-03-03
Believers Tortured to Renounce Their Faith in Xinjiang’s Camps
Along with Muslims, members of The Church of Almighty God, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other persecuted...Read More
2020-04-27
CCP Arrest Christians at Set Quotas Prior to the Coronavirus; Police Extorts Confession by Torture
The CCP has never halted its persecution against members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG). Rather...Read More
2020-04-22
Guilt by Association: All Are Punished for the Faith of One
The CCP forces believers to give up their faith by implicating their families, threatening to deter ...Read More
2020-04-18
Chinese Pastor Charged with Subversion of State Power
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a house church pastor in China’s Hunan provin...Read More
2020-04-16
Believers Denied Religious Services Online Amid the Pandemic
The CCP intensified censorship to prevent believers from practicing their faith online, as religious...Read More
2020-04-15
Police in China’s Chengdu Raid Online Easter Church Service
Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan detained at least eight people in an Easter S...Read More
2020-04-14