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Families of detained Chinese Christians cling to faith in legal limbo

Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi

Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than XiAllegra MendelsonWhen the power cut out and his signal dropped, TJ knew something was wrong.Seconds later, the bangin...

Chinese Families Seek Christian Education in Southeast Asia

In the past seven years, Chinese house church leaders Owen Jiao and Ella Jiang have sought to provide their children with a Christian education, a difficult journey that caused the...

A Church From China Finds a Home 8,000 Miles Away, in Midland

After fleeing to South Korea and then Thailand, a persecuted congregation has received a warm welcome in West Texas.

'The party is in charge of everything,' freed pastor says of China's crackdown on religion

China recently took a rare step by releasing a detainee at the United States' request. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri was picked up by Chinese authorities last October, one of dozens of Ch...

Lawyer for China’s Zion Church seeks resettlement help while transiting through Taiwan

A Chinese lawyer who defended a prominent underground church in Beijing fled to Taiwan and is seeking help for resettlement, following mounting pressure from Chinese authorities on...

Over 10,000 Christians Arrested in China as Xi Jinping’s Communist Regime Escalates Religious Crackdown

REPORT: Over 10,000 Christians Arrested in China as Xi Jinping’s Communist Regime Escalates Religious CrackdownBen KewChristians across Communist China are being arrested, detained...

Uyghur Pastor in China Faces Forced Church Closure from Communist Officials

A pastor in Xinjiang, China, is facing compliance regulations from communist officials and the possible forced closure of his church. The pastor, mentioned in a June 24 release fro...

Guangnan Gospel Hall Renewal / TouchGrass Architecture

Built in 1930 and dedicated in 1932, Guangnan Gospel Hall is the only timber church in Guangxi. Led by Dong pastor Shi Zhengang, villagers built it in local fir using traditional c...

Algeria’s Christians go underground

From Morning Star News. (Photo: Unsplash) Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced unde...

Freed Pastor Talks of China's Crackdown On Religion

Nick Schifrin, PBS News China recently took a rare step by releasing a detainee at the United States' request. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri was picked up by Chinese authorities last Oct...

Pastor Ezra Jin Recounts Secretive Release After 10 Months in Chinese Detention

Zion Church founder Ezra Jin says Chinese authorities gave him no warning that he would be released after 10 months in detention. He did not learn he was bound for the US until an...

Chinese Lawyer Who Defended Zion Church Seeks Refuge in Taiwan

More than a decade after Beijing's sweeping '709 Crackdown' on human rights lawyers, Wang’s case underscores the continuing professional and political risks of taking on clients th...

Chinese Police Dragged a Pastor Away: Now He's Spreading the Gospel Through the Prison System

The wife of a Chinese pastor whose husband was imprisoned amid the Chinese government’s crackdown on house churches revealed that the trial has brought about tremendous spiritual f...

REPORT: Over 10,000 Christians Arrested in China as Xi Jinping’s Communist Regime Escalates Religious Crackdown

Christians across Communist China are being arrested, detained and effectively “disappeared” for worshipping outside state-controlled churches, according to a major investigation b...

Christianity in China: Testing Religious Freedom

Insights from Paul H. B. Chang.

Seven Christians held incommunicado by China

The charges against those arrested have not been disclosed.

A Chinese Pastor's Journey From Jail to the U.S.

Vivian Wang, The New York Times The Chinese police officers hurried the pastor out of the jail cell where he'd been held for 266 days. They hustled him into a van, then onto a tra...

Chinese Christian human rights lawyer wrongly arrested by ICE

Christian Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping, who represented persecuted religious believers and other victims of government repression before fleeing China, was released on b...

10 or more underground bishops secretly consecrated since Vatican-China deal: report

An underground Chinese bishop told Catholic World Report that the secret consecrations have taken place since 2018 due to the 'state of emergency' to ensure the faith's survival.

From prison fears to fireworks, Chinese pastor recounts sudden release after Trump’s intervention

Ezra Jin Mingri was inside a detention center in southern China on the morning of July 3, worrying that he would likely spend at least 15 years behind bars.

ChinaAid Asks Trump to Help Bring Dying Pastor to U.S.

Diana Chandler, BP The Chinese Communist Party imprisoned Pastor John Cao for seven years because of his Christianity, advocates say, then confiscated his passport to prevent him...

Ezra Jin describes harsh prison conditions in first comments since release from China

Days after reuniting with his family for the first time in eight years on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Chinese house church Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri has vowed not to rest...

Hong Kong church-goers urged to avoid masses by breakaway Catholic group SSPX

Hong Kong’s Catholic diocese has urged worshippers to avoid masses led by a conservative group excommunicated by the Vatican after a priest from the fraternity was reported to be h...