China Christian Workers And Survivors Missing In Earthquake Zone

Source:        www.bosnewslife.com
Date:           December 30, 2008
 
Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
A monument made from roof beams dug out of debris is seen at the Donghekou Earthquake Relics Park, which covers one town and five villages including Donghekou Village, on November 11, 2008 in Qingchuan County, China.
BEIJING, CHINA […]

The PRC’s long list of violence against house churches, activists and prisoners

Thirty years after the beginning of economic reforms, anyone challenging China’s unjust power structure is subject to the system’s systematic violence. Violent repression is visited upon house churches; zero tolerance is applied to anyone involved in petitions or trying to defend people’s economic rights; and torture is inflicted on those who are put in jail.Beijing […]

Raids on Chinese House Churches

 
2008-12-18
Authorities launch separate raids on unofficial Christian worshipers in the east and southwest of the country, as Christmas approaches.
AFP
Christians in Hefei, in Anhui province, sing a devotional hymn.
HONG KONG

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China: 4 Christians Missing in Hubei Since Beginning of 11/08; Many More Persecuted by Authorities

Source:  www.assistnews.net
Date:  2008-12-12
By Michael IrelandChief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
HUBEI, CHINA (ANS) — Four Christians are missing and many more have been persecuted in Hubei province during the month of November 2008 according to the South China Church house church network.
ChinaAid recently received a detailed report from South China Church leaders […]

China: Friends of ChinaAid Visit Family of Christian Prisoner Shi Weihan

Source:        www.ChinaAid.orgDate:           December 9, 2008 Posted Dec 09 2008 Photo: Shi Weihan (left); Shi Weihan’s wife and daughters (right)December 9, 2008BEIJING – Recently friends of ChinaAid visited Christian prisoner Shi Weihan’s family and reported to ChinaAid about the family’s situation and ongoing persecution by the Chinese government.Christian bookstore owner and house church leader, […]

Protestant clergyman sentenced to one year of forced labour

The religious leader is charged with heading an “evil cult”. The move is just another step in a campaign to “normalise” underground Protestant communities. Beijing (AsiaNews/CAA) – Zhu Baoguo, a pastor in a house church in Henan, was sentenced to a year of “re-education through labour” for being an “evil cult” leader.
The US-based China […]

China: PSB Officers Beat Pastor’s Son

Source:        www.ChinaAid.org
Date:           October 22, 2008
 
Around noon on October 16, Zhang Jian received an urgent phone call from his mother. Plainclothes Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers had broken into her upstairs apartment and were throwing all the family’s belongings out into the street:
“When I got there, I saw […]

House Church in China For the First Time Files Lawsuit Against Religious Bureau

House Church in China For the First Time Files Lawsuit Against Religious Bureau
Luke LeungGospel Herald ReporterMon, Sep, 22 2008 11:17 AM PT
On Sept. 16, Chengdu Qiuyu Church filed an indictment of administrative proceeding to the Shuangliu County court in China with the plaintiff as Wang Yidi, a professor of management at Chengdu University, and the […]