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A Christian activist arrested for protesting on a public sidewalk outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., has been ordered to stay off that sidewalk while prosecutors move forward with the case against him.
Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, who was imprisoned in China for nine months until he was released to the United States in July, is slated to receive a human rights award commemorating the one-year anniversary of his arrest.
Authorities in China detained Protestant Pastor An Yankui at his home on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities” amid an ongoing crackdown on unregistered churches.
When President Trump hosted Xi Jinping in Washington, the two leaders discussed trade, AI, Taiwan, and Iran. Missing from the agenda was China's egregious human rights record. Reagan would not have left it off.
Authorities in China have detained several pastors and church workers from Beijing Jiaquan Church, an independent house church operating in the capital.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday urging him to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on Beijing's persecution of Christian pastors and other religious minorities during their bilateral summit this week in Washington.
Pastor Ding Shuqi of the persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, urged the world to remember the plight of Chinese Christians, whose freedoms he said are being crushed by the Chinese Communist Party.
