China

Last month local police detained three Christians in China’s Guangdong province for possessing religious materials, including a Bible.

The pastor of a state-run church in China’s Zhejiang province was recently released after eight months in detention.

Authorities in China’s Zhejiang province demolished a three-story church building in April after declaring that the elevation of its cross was too high.

The wife of a church leader in China’s Henan province was buried alive with her husband under the rubble of their demolished church where she suffocated and died on April 14.

The pastor of an official church in Zhejiang Province was sentenced after he dared to criticize Communist authorities about China’s ongoing demolition of church crosses.

Authorities have been harassing unofficial house churches in the Chinese province of Guangdong that haven’t submitted to the Communist Party’s Three-Self Association program.

Chinese authorities have again resumed removing crosses from churches in Zhejiang province.

The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese has become concerned about the state of the Catholic Church in mainland China.

There has been a flood of conversions to Christianity in China for both its Catholic and Protestant sects, according to Asia News.