East Asia
More than 1,000 government agents, including police, forced their way into an unofficial church in Henan province on 14 September and removed items from the building. Church members had locked the church doors, but the officials ...
Chinese authorities are moving to ban the streaming of church services online in a crackdown on internet evangelism that will mean that anyone wishing to create a religious website will need specific permission. On 10 September, the ...
Thirty-four “house churches” (unregistered church groups) in Beijing have issued a statement calling for Chinese authorities to respect freedom of religion. The Protestant congregations highlighted recent changes to religious regulations and the targeting of “house churches” which ...
A Chinese house church pastor who was tortured into confessing to state secrets” has been released after two and a half years in jail. While in detention, Yang Hua contracted vasculitis and diabetes and, at one point, ...
Police raided a church in Sichuan province, China, detaining 17 Christians, including the pastor and his wife, prior to a memorial prayer session. Dozens of officers stormed the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu on Monday ...
Armed Chinese police, accompanied by officials from the local Religious Affairs Department, stormed a church service in Lanzhou, northern China, on Sunday 27 May and carried away the church offering box. More than 40 police officers, ...
Authorities in three Chinese provinces issued a notice to house churches to shut down in early May 2018, ordering their congregations to join official, state-supervised churches. A written notice was issued to a house church in ...
Prisoners detained in Chinese government “re-education” camps are being forcibly given mind-altering medication, leaving them suffering with memory loss and damage to their reproductive health. Newly acquired evidence of the treatment of prisoners in the network ...
Japanese islands where Christians were persecuted and killed over three centuries are being recommended as future World Heritage sites. A dozen sites related to the persecution of Christians during the Edo period (1603-1867) are being put forward ...
Authorities in Henan province, central China, are escalating their crackdown on Christians, tearing down crosses and forcing churches to close. Local government officials are also reported to be revoking elderly church members’ pensions and stopping children ...
