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 […]

WENZHOU, Zhejiang (China Aid) — National security agents in China’s coastal Zhejiang confronted a local pastor for supporting Christians in Henan province, who are undergoing intense persecution. Faced with the continual deterioration of Henan churches’ freedoms, Pastor Yan Xiaojie of Shangjiang Church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, decided to sign a statement decrying the persecution. So far, the […]

ZHENGZHOU, Henan (China Aid) — Officials in Zhengzhou, capital of China’s Henan province, sent people to blockade off the church during a service on Sunday, Sept. 16. In response, the church posted an SOS notice online, calling on all Christians in the area to support them. The message appeared at 9:00 a.m., calling on other adherents […]

(China Aid) — Henan authorities continue tearing down crosses in Zhengzhou, Nanyang, and Yuzhou. Christians of Chinese Gospel Fellowship Tongxin Church located in Anpeng, Nanyang sang hymns to encourage each other in their empty church after the cross was demolished. It is unprecedented that Henan officials massively destroy crosses. Eight house churches were shut down […]