Christian (Page 4)

Jail

On December 31, a Christian street evangelist in China’s Hunan province was again sentenced by the authorities to ten days in administrative detention for “disturbing public order.” Last August, Chen Wensheng, who is a member of the Xiaoqun Church inRead More →

Barbed wire

It is not only to prevent “dissidents” from escaping China, or Chinese to go gambling in Myanmar. It is also a barrier against Christianity. by Massimo Introvigne While building walls is generally criticized as a bad idea by the world’sRead More →

Government officials in Shanxi’s Taiyuan city destroyed a temple’s religious books and threw them to the trash.

Not content with persecuting believers, the CCP confiscates and destroys Christian texts, Qurans, and Buddhist scriptures. by Deng Changlin 26 people given hefty sentences for printing Good News Mission books On July 7, the People’s Court of Huai’an city’s HuaiyinRead More →

CAG believers sentenced in Guangdong Province.

Over 300 believers were arrested in October and November, as local authorities launched new crackdown campaigns against this Chinese Christian new religious movement. by Ye Jiajia The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is the single most persecuted religious movement in China,Read More →

The Three-Self church in Qifu village had its crosses removed.

For over two years now, CCP implements a comprehensive nationwide campaign to remove religious symbols from places of worship, documented here with exclusive pictures. by Tang Zhe Jiangxi Province Countless state-run Protestant churches in the southeastern province of Jiangxi lost theirRead More →

The police raid an Association of Disciples member’s home in Qinghai Province in September last year.

Crackdown operations targeting this banned religious movement are being carried out since May, resulting in arrests of its key leaders. by Yao Zhangjin The Association of Disciples, or Mentuhui, a Chinese new religious movement, was founded in 1989 and was bannedRead More →

Police officers investigate a believer.

Believers were arrested in several provinces from June to October after prolonged surveillance and pursuing tip-offs from residents. by Lu An Following a unified operation across the eastern province of Anhui, 135 members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG)Read More →

A Three-Self church in Henan’s Xiayi county was demolished.

Local governments repurpose places of worship and turn them into propaganda centers, entertainment venues, or factories. Some are even leveled to the ground. by Yang Guang’an More than 70 Protestant venues were shut down last year in Jiangsu Province’s prefecture-levelRead More →

Church members were taken away by the police.

Numerous venues were shut down, believers arrested and dispersed in August across Henan, Guizhou, and Fujian provinces. by Li Xiao On August 23, the Gushi county police in Henan Province’s Xinyang city raided a Great Praise Church’s venue. “Two plainclothesRead More →