Continuing its crackdown on house churches and censorship of Christian materials, China’s ruling Communist Party has now blocked a popular prayer and Bible and app from being available to mainland Chinese citizens, CBN News reports.
...continue reading this storyAs China’s ruling Communist Party continues its crackdown on Chinese Christian families and house churches, police on Jan. 18 arrested three believers from the Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church as they led children in the congregation in singing hymns and prayer, China Aid reports.
...continue reading this storyChristian rights advocates are concerned that believers in China are being pressured by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to discourage their children from entering into faith in Christ, Christian Today (CT) reports.
...continue reading this storyIn a further display of China’s crackdown on evangelical Christianity, a court in Liaoning province has sentenced a prominent online Gospel preacher, his wife, and four house church members to lengthy prison terms for allegedly “using superstition to undermine the law” by expressing and sharing their faith in Christ, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
...continue reading this storyA Christian advocacy group has urged prayers for Christians facing persecution in China after a church elder of one of China’s largest underground churches was detained for questioning.
...continue reading this storyAn evangelical church leader imprisoned in Sichuan province, China, on charges of fraud, insists he is innocent and has refused to accept the prosecution’s offer to release him if he would just plead guilty, China Aid reports.
...continue reading this storyChina’s governing Communist Party has instructed state-approved Christian church organizations that they must “strictly” manage their religious affairs in a manner that emphasizes their identification with the Chinese communist government and with Chinese culture and nationalism, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.
...continue reading this storyThe long-persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in China’s Sichuan Province has been subjected to further intense persecution from Chinese authorities who arrested and detained church leaders and sought to block an important online prayer meeting on 9 December 2023, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
...continue reading this storyThe leader of a major Christian watchdog organization has pushed back against a recent Pew Research Report that the number of Christians in China is in decline, the Christian Post reports. Citing a survey by the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), Pew reported an estimated 23.2 million Christians in China in 2010, compared to some 19.9 million in 2018.
...continue reading this storyPolice in China raided a long-persecuted Christian mission center in Chengdu, Sichuan province earlier this month, arresting a number of church leaders and continuing to detain two of them, China Aid reports.
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