Chinese police and an angry mob raided the home of a key house church missionary in Beijing and detained about a dozen believers after beating them and destroying furniture, family and investigators said Thursday, December 21.
...continue reading this storyThe largest-ever delivery of Bibles by sea to China, known as 'Project Pearl', has contributed to a major underground house church movement in the country and an unprecedented growth of Christianity here, despite reports of persecution, BosNewsLife established Sunday, December 17.
...continue reading this storyA Beijing court convicted human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng of "inciting subversion" on Tuesday (December 12) after he mysteriously entered a "guilty" plea, according to reports.
...continue reading this storyAuthorities in China's Anhui province have closed down a house church and force believers to join the government backed Three-Self Church denomination, a religious rights group said Monday, December 11.
...continue reading this storyChristians in China's Zhejiand faced a tense Sunday, December 3, amid reports that local authorities want to destroy a house church in the province.
...continue reading this storyChina has secretly executed 15 members of a controversial underground church after founding them guilty "of murdering members of a rival sect," BosNewsLife learned Thursday, November 30.
...continue reading this storyA group of Chinese Christians faced a difficult period Thursday, November 2, after their house church building located in the campus of Changchun Agricultural University in the suburb of Changchun city, Jilin province was reportedly demolished forcibly by local authorities.
...continue reading this storyTensions remained high in a city of China’s Gansu province Wednesday, November 1, after hundreds of Christians reportedly demanded the return of their church property 40 years after it was taken away from then during the Cultural Revolution.
...continue reading this storyLocal police raided Qilin Mountain Villa in the suburb of Uramqi City, Xijiang Autonomous Region, when some Christians were having a Bible training program held by a Korean pastor from America.
...continue reading this storyThere were hopes Tuesday, October 24, that at least five prominent Chinese church leaders jailed for their alleged role in resisting police forces while defending their church building would be released, after a prosecutor decided not to prosecute them because of "a lack of evidence," supporters said.
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