(China Aid) — Two leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) continue to face numerous legal challenges as they grapple with authorities. According to new information, the defense lawyer for Pastor Wang Yi was barred from meeting with his client several weeks ago. More recently, officials said Deacon Tan Defu hired two lawyers in his […]

GUIZHOU (ChinaAid) — On Sunday, June 30, authorities in Guizhou province broke into Zion Reform Evangelical Church during worship. Officials reportedly subjected congregants to inquiry and confiscated some church possessions. When asked to sign official documents, church leader Zhu Jieheng wrote down “God grants the right to worship” to demonstrate the church was not subject […]

TAIPEI (ChinaAid) — Liao Qiang and several family members arrived in Taiwan last week after fleeing China. His attendance at a Sunday church service in Taipei represents the first time Qiang worshiped publicly since authorities shut down Early Rain Covenant Church last December, the Associated Press reports. Liao and his family hope to reside in […]

XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Police and security officials staked out the location of Xunsiding Church for at least a month after the house of worship was shut down in May. … The wife of Xunsiding Church’s pastor brought friends to the church’s location on June 30. A large group of police and other officials formed […]

XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Authorities in China’s Fujian province carried out campaigns against Christian house churches to meet a July 1 goal of clean-up and rectification. As part of their efforts, authorities dispatched police to Xinzao Church to monitor the location each day. Officials issued an administrative shutdown notice against the church on June 19, […]

CHENGDU, Sichuan (ChinaAid) — Jiang Rong, the wife of Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor Wang Yi, has been released on bail, six months after vanishing into China’s prison system. Jiang and Wang were initially seized on the night of Dec. 9 as authorities conducted a mass, overnight arrest of their church members. By the end of […]

(China Aid) — At least 15 churches have been harassed in mainland China since Sunday in a nationwide crackdown on the faith. At 9:30 a.m. on May 12, state security officers from the local religious management bureau invaded Jinxiangtan Church in Xiangtan, Hunan province, and stopped one of the church’s elders, a man surnamed Huang, […]

SHANGRAO, Jiangxi (ChinaAid) — Since September, authorities in an area of China’s eastern Jiangxi province have carried out a sweeping crackdown on Christianity, destroying the crosses of 25 churches and imposing various measures in order to keep a tight rein on religious activities. Religious affairs and United Front Work Department officials started collecting information on […]

BEIJING (ChinaAid) — An American pastor serving a life sentence in China is begging his family to secure his release. David Lin, a Chinese American pastor, was placed under house arrest in China in 2006, when he tried to gain government permission to run a ministry within China. He was subsequently jailed, and authorities then […]

QINGDAO, Shandong (ChinaAid) — Qingdao officials released an elderly minister on March 29 upon the completion of his two-year-and-one-month sentence for allegedly “provoking troubles.” Later that night, the released minister, Zhou Dixian, traveled to Beijing in order to protect his rights and worship at a church there. Before his arrest, Zhou founded a church that […]