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…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Denounces Chinese Government’s Genocide Against Uyghurs
Save the Persecuted Christians | July 7, 2020 Forced Sterilization, Pregnancy Checks and Confiscated Human Hair Expose Danger for Religious Groups in Communist China WASHINGTON, D.C.—Two stories originating from the…
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…
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…
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…
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 – Christian Persecution Watchdog Group Concerned About China’s Increased Control Over Hong Kong
Beliefnet | June 1, 2020 Christians in Hong Kong face constant threats in preaching a gospel of freedom in China, an authoritative Communist regime. News that China has enacted new…
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…
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…
VATICAN – New edition of Jesuit journal proves Vatican’s ‘all in’ on Chinese courtship
Crux | John L. Allen Jr. | May 17, 2020 China, in a sense, has become the third rail of geopolitics, in the sense that anything it touches automatically becomes…
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…
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…
CHINA – China continues to persecute Early Rain Covenant Church, orders members to cease online services
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | May 4, 2020 China’s communist government has continued to monitor and persecute Sichuan province’s Early Rain Covenant Church, demanding church members cease all…
CHINA – Crosses removed from two Chinese Catholic churches could indicate ‘larger crackdown’
Scottish Catholic Observer | May 1, 2020 Open Doors, an organisation that fights Christian persecution in countries where it is most rife, spoke out after it was revealed that government…
CHINA – China’s Religious Persecution in the Time of Coronavirus
Real Clear Politics | Susan Crabtree | April 27, 2020 It’s a portrait of contrasts in the age of pandemic. In the United States, small but passionate protests have broken…
WORLDWIDE – Religious persecution pandemic needs cure, too
The Washington Times | Tina Ramirez | Monday, April 27, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic and its quarantine are taking a huge toll on our lives. The freedom of worship, association, movement…
CHINA – Perfect Storm to Cause China Withdrawal
Juicy Ecumenism | Faith McDonnell | April 23, 2020 Many Americans recently have drawn some conclusions about the Chinese Communist regime. We agree that the CCP is responsible for the…
CHINA – Escaping China
International Christian Concern | Gina Gih | April 16, 2020 Seven months after they fled to Taiwan to dodge the endless oppression against themselves and their church, Liao Qiang and…
CHINA – China’s people of faith: Canaries in Xi Jinping’s coal mine
The Jerusalem Post | Leila Gilbert | MARCH 30, 2020 Call it COVID-19. Or novel coronavirus. Or the now-politically incorrect term “Chinese flu.” But thanks to the virus’s unrivaled global threat,…
CHINA – Cardinal Zen: ‘Terrible’ Vatican-China Deal Sending Catholics ‘to Catacombs’
National Catholic Register | Edward Pentin | March 26, 2020 The Holy See must reconsider pastoral guidelines it issued last year encouraging Chinese clergy to join the country’s official state-run…