At least 150 house church pastors were believed to be behind bars Tuesday, December 11, after Chinese security forces broke up a Christian meeting in China’s Shandong Province, fellow believers said.
About 40 leaders of one of China’s largest house church groups have been detained while at least one pastor received a prison term for writing and distributing Christian publications among Muslims, a major advocacy organization said Wednesday, November 28.
Three senior employees of an Australian owned multi-million dollar bio-engineering corporation in China’s Guangdong province remained detained Thursday, November 22, and their company closed, over allegations of involvement in “illegal” Christian activities.
China’s Communist government has ordered a crackdown on mushrooming underground house churches in a key province as part of a nationwide plan against devoted Christians across the country, according to a secret document leaked Tuesday, November 13, and obtained by BosNewsLife.
Chinese authorities have shut down a multi million dollar branch of Australia-based Enoch Group because it allegedly promoted Christianity and hired Christian workers, investigators close to the case told BosNewsLife Thursday, November 1.
Chinese Christians remained concerned Thursday, October 25, about the health situation of a prominent Beijing pastor amid reports he was beaten again by security forces after being discharged from Tiantan Hospital.
There was mounting concern Wednesday, October 17, about the health of a Beijing pastor amid reports he was attacked by members of China’s feared Public Security Bureau (PSB).
Chinese authorities have expelled dozens of foreign Christian workers, including Americans, and closed down several Christian owned companies as part of an effort to end the spread of Christianity in several areas, including in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region investigators and legal documents confirmed Wednesday, October 10.
Nine Chinese house church leaders who have been missing for nearly two months are held in labor camps in Hubei province on charges of violating Chinese laws with their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned Friday, October 5.
Two prominent Christian activists of the house church movement in Beijing remained under house arrest Thursday, October 4, while a Christian human rights lawyer recovered from his injuries following six hours of “torture,” rights investigators confirmed.
Chinese authorities have released a Christian American businessman who served four years for aiding North Korean refugees, BosNewsLife established Friday, September 28.
Chinese securities forces have detained a prominent Christian human rights lawyer and family members, amid an apparent new government-led crackdown on house churches, observers following the case said Thursday, September 27.
Pastor Zhang Rongliang, one of China’s top Christian leaders and authors, “will likely die soon” if he is not released from prison, fellow believers and human rights activists said Tuesday, September 25.
A prominent house church leaders who was convicted of illegally printing up to 40 million Bibles and other Christian writings was home Saturday, September 15, after three years detention, family members and Christians involved in the case said.
Chinese secret service agents are massively infiltrating China’s growing house church movement and pressure its leaders to leave Beijing before the Olympic Games are held there in 2008, well-informed Chinese sources and rights investigators told BosNewsLife Friday, September 7.
A well-known Chinese house church leader was believed to be behind bars Sunday, September 9, after he was detained by Chinese security forces and allegedly beaten for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korean churches, fellow believers said.
China’s central government has launched a nationwide campaign to crackdown on what it calls “illegal religious activities,” targeting especially Christians, BosNewsLife learned from investigators Saturday, August 25.
An elderly jailed house church activist remained in “life danger” Saturday, August 18, as her health rapidly deteriorates because of abuses in prison, her family said.
A key Chinese house church activist in Beijing was free Saturday, July 28, after six months of imprisonment, human rights investigators said.
Chinese Christian workers were recovering from injuries Saturday, July 21, after security forces raided a Vacation Bible School (VSB) for children in Jiangsu province, the latest in a series of police raids targeting China’s house church movement which detentions of at least 15 leaders, local Christians and investigators said.