CHINA – Report: Religious Suppression in China
International Christian Concern | July 23, 2020 This report seeks to provide an overview of religious persecution against Chinese Christians in recent years. With this report, we hope to piece…
CHINA – Churches shuttered, turned into cultural centers promoting socialist values
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | July 21, 2020 As part of China’s ongoing crackdown on Christianity, Communist authorities have converted a number of state-approved Three-Self churches into cultural…
CHINA – Chinese Government Orders Low-Income Families to Abandon Their Christian Faith or Lose Financial Aid
CBN | Andrea Morris | July 19, 2020 In the Chinese government's continuing persecution of Christians, poor families are now being told to renounce their faith or lose welfare benefits.…
NORTH KOREA – South Korea successfully delivers digital bibles into North Korea
Christian Daily | Lina Kim | July 13,2020 Amid North and South Korea's relationship, South Korea successfully delivered digital bibles into North Korea. Knowing there will be consequences, a South…
CHINA – China bans Senators Cruz, Rubio and 2 other U.S. officials in dispute over religious persecution
CBS News | July 13, 2020 China on Monday said it will ban entry to U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Representative Chris Smith and Ambassador for Religious Freedom…
CHINA – Chinese diocese asked to ban children to resume services
UCA News | July 7, 2020 A Catholic bishop in northern China's Hebei province has been asked to ban children from entering churches if he wants to reopen his churches…
CHINA – China demolishes government-run church after 7-year standoff
Fox News | Caleb Parke | July 1, 2020 Authorities in China raided a government-run church in June, beat members and demolished the building, ending a seven-year standoff, a persecution watchdog tells Fox News. Officials from…
CHINA – U.S. Readies ‘Harsh’ Sanctions on China Over Abuses in Xinjiang
Bloomberg | Nick Wadhams and Jenny Leonard | July 1, 2020 The U.S. is preparing to roll out long-delayed sanctions to punish senior Chinese officials over human-rights abuses against Muslims in Xinjiang,…
CHINA – Chinese seniors told to remove Christian images or lose their stipends
World Tribune | June 30, 2020 Elderly Christians in China are being forced by the communist government to choose between their faith and survival, a report said. The Chinese Communist…
CHINA – Communist Officials Raid Christian Church in China, Beat Faithful
Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | June 27, 2020 Some 200 communist officials raided the Sunzhuang Christian Church in China’s Henan province earlier this month, demolishing the building and…
CHINA – Xi’s Chinese Communist Party Banishes and Shames Christian Children
Townhall | Elizabeth Yore | June 26, 2020 Imagine, within one generation, religion could be completely wiped out in the People’s Republic of China. Ponder that catastrophic sociological and spiritual…
CHINA – The Chinese Communist Party
Stand in the Gap Today | June 25, 2020 The Chinese Communist Party: Leading the Way to Persecution and Death. We are joined by Dede Laugesen (Save the Persecuted Christians)…
CHINA – Hong Kong pastors face arrest, extradition to China with new security laws: watchdog
Fox News | Caleb Parke | June 23, 2020 China’s blueprint for national security in Hong Kong puts pro-democracy activists, including pastors and religious leaders, at risk of being extradited to and…
WORLDWIDE – Religious persecution is engulfing the world Religious persecution is engulfing the world
Christian Post | Arielle Del Turco | June 18, 2020 Believers in many countries face severe challenges, according to the State Department’s annual Report on International Religious Freedom, released last week.…
CHINA – CCP Suppresses Christianity in Education, Co-opts Religious Institutions for Political Indoctrination
International Christian Concern | June 18, 2020 As noted by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, the Chinese government has long imposed highly restrictive conditions on religious schools and has prohibited the participation of children…
RELEASE – New Report to United Nations Brings to Light Extreme Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Save the Persecuted Christians | June 16, 2020 In Advance of UN General Assembly, Save the Persecuted Christians Coalition Partner Jubilee Campaign Submits Report on Inhumane Treatment of This Marginalized…
NORTH KOREA – Christianity crackdown: Kim Jong-un sister brands Bibles and leaflet distributors ‘scum’
Express | Stephen Brown | June 15, 2020 As part of a campaign, which has been going on since 2004, defectors have been dropping leaflets opposing the current regime into…
CHINA – China removes over 250 church crosses in first 4 months of 2020: report
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 11, 2020 Workers removed a cross from the top of a church in the Lu’an-administered Shu County in a video posted to YouTube…
CHINA – Vatican Must Help Free Chinese Christians Its Deal with the Devil Helped Repress
Breitbart | Elizabeth Yore | June 11, 2020 The Vatican’s negotiations with China have not just done little to empower Catholics in the country, but actively imperiled Catholic clergy. The…
STATEMENT – Annual International Religious Freedom Report Released Highlighting Worldwide Persecution
Save the Persecuted Christians | June 10, 2020 Save the Persecuted Christians to Compare 2019 IRF Report with 2020 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Report; Encourages State Department to…
CHINA – Catholic Woman Denied Government Aid Because of Faith
International Christian Concern | June 9, 2020 A Catholic widow from Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province in her 60s, has been continuously threatened by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since last…
NORTH KOREA – North Korea Threatens to Abolish Liaison Office Over Defectors’ Balloons
International Christian Concern | June 8, 2020 North Korea’s de facto leader of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, Kim Yo-Jong, better known as its leader Kim Jong-Un’s younger sister, threatened…
CHINA- Believers Forced to Choose Between Faith or Survival
Bitter Winter | Tang Zhe | June 6, 2020 Even though China’s economy has been severely affected by the coronavirus, and many residents suffer financial difficulties, the CCP threatens to…
CHINA – China makes preaching patriotism compulsory to reopen churches
UCA News | June 5, 2020 Catholics are upset about a directive from China's communist government asking priests to "preach on patriotism" as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended…
CHINA – TRUMP FIGHTS RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
Church Militant| Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. | June 4, 2020 President Donald Trump is protecting religious freedom by reasserting the United States as a global watchdog with teeth. Trump's Executive Order on Advancing International Religious…
RELEASE – June 4 Marks Tragic Day at Tiananmen Square
Save the Persecuted Christians | June 3, 2020 Save the Persecuted Christians Reflects on 31st Anniversary of Massacre, as Advocates Mourn Atrocities Still Being Committed in China Today and Coalition…
CHINA – Police Secretly Installed CCTV to Monitor Guangzhou House Church
International Christian Concern | June 3, 2020 On May 26, when pastor Ma Chao from the Guangfu house church in Guangzhou, Guangdong province was heading to his church to attend…
CHINA – China’s Religious Persecution Wrecks People’s Lives
Bitter Winter | Deng Changlin | May 31, 2020 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that in 2014–2018, at least 500,000 members of The Church of…
CHINA – 48 State-Run Churches Shut Down in One County in Two Weeks
Bitter Winter| Tang Zhe | May 31, 2020 Since the coronavirus lockdown measures were eased, local governments throughout the southeastern province of Jiangxi started intensifying efforts to suppress places of…
CHINA – Christian watchdog group finds China’s increased control over Hong Kong ‘concerning’
Christian Post | Michael Gryboski | May 28, 2020 The head of a human rights group that monitors Christian persecution worldwide has expressed concern over news that the People’s Republic…
CHINA – The real virus to the Chinese Communist Party: religious freedom
The Hill | Rep. Michael Waltz | May 27, 2020 The lockdowns and death in China began long before the first case of COVID-19 was ever reported. Though Xinjiang province…
LAOS – Pastor’s Daughter in Laos Trapped with Dilemma
International Christian Concern | May 27, 2020 Communist nations in South East Asian countries are persecuting Christians because they consider Christianity a threat to their countries. Laos, for instance, has…
CHINA – Wuhan pastor interrogated after Zoom evangelism event: ‘I will only live for Christ’
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | May 25, 2020 A local pastor in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the origin of the novel coronavirus, was taken away by police for…
NORTH KOREA – North Korea ‘church’ doesn’t look like any other but it exists: watchdog
Fox News | Caleb Parke | May 14, 2020 Being a Christian in North Korea means using secretive, spylike tactics to read the Bible, facing threats of the death penalty, and circumventing propaganda with…
CHINA – Chinese officials restrict aged bishop’s funeral
UCA News | Mayh 12, 2020 Officials of the communist government in China imposed restrictions on the funeral of 98-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu of Nanyang. Officials allowed only 40…
CHINA – China Conducts Violent Raid on Christian Church, Drags Worshipers Out of Service
Breitbart | John Hayward | May 8, 2020 ChinaAid, a religious freedom watchdog group, published a smartphone video this week that showed Chinese officials conducting a violent raid on a church in…
NORTH KOREA – The Underground Church in North Korea
International Christian Concern | May 6, 2020 North Korea is arguably the most dangerous nation in the world to practice Christianity. Yet, against all odds, the North Korean Church remains.…
CHINA – Chinese Propaganda Outlet Picks Crazy Fight Over Mike Pompeo’s Faith
Faithwire | Tré Goins-Phillips | May 5, 2020 As a kid, I remember learning about taking personal responsibility for my actions, rather than trying to pass the blame off to…
CHINA – Yore: China’s Pact to Persecute Catholics
Breitbart | Elizabeth Yore | May 4, 2020 The Vatican’s secret deal with the Chinese government signed on September 22, 2018, has done nothing to improve the religious freedom climate of Chinese…
CHINA – Violence Erupts As Chinese Officials Attack Christians in Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHgvKcpsaM FaithWire | Tré Goins-Phillips | May 4, 2020 Video footage captured during a church service in the Fujian province in southeastern China shows strong-armed government officials raiding worshippers as…