More than 1,000 police, SWAT and paramilitary units carried out a crackdown on Christian churches across at least 12 congregations for days in Yayang Town, Zhejiang province, detaining hundreds, according to a watchdog report.
Governments in the world’s five remaining communist countries are intensifying control over Christian churches, according to an analysis by a persecution watchdog, which says churches are facing growing legal, financial and operational restrictions under regimes in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam.
Leaders of a Chinese house church have been arrested for purportedly “illegally using information networks” in what looks to be part of a broader crackdown by the CCP on non-state-sanctioned Christian denominations.
Three leaders of an unregistered Christian house church in Xi’an city in central China have been arrested by communist authorities and detained on fraud charges, reigniting concerns over religious freedom in China.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a home security camera manufacturer amid concerns that its products may be linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
There is a vast, radiant, global church moving beneath the border walls that politics and news headlines construct.
The past week of the Trump administration featured President Donald Trump meeting with Asian leaders overseas, as the ongoing government shutdown continues to have an impact here at home.
The daughter of a prominent Chinese pastor, who was recently swept up in the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown against the underground church, urged Christians not to forget about their persecuted brothers and sisters in China.
The Trump administration has called for the immediate release of an underground church pastor detained in China whose children are American citizens. The State Department’s demand follows a sweeping crackdown by Chinese authorities on unregistered religious groups.
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