Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
Feb 5, 2019
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
Dec 13, 2018
Pastor Wang Yi’s wife Jiang Rong, who is held under secret detention in an undisclosed location,...
Dec 10, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Sep 11, 2018
Officials in Beijing have shut down Zion church, one of the city’s largest Protestant...
Feb 26, 2016
Cartoonist Rebel Pepper comments on the recent televised confession by lawyer Zhang Kai, who had...
Jul 23, 2015
On July 1, Hong Kong-based Lutheran pastor Philip Woo was called to the religious affairs bureau...
Apr 16, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
May 15, 2012
Since news broke of activist Chen Guangcheng’s escape from house arrest late last month, Chinese-born and Texas-based Pastor Bob Fu and his organisation ChinaAid have often featured prominently. Fu was a major conduit of...
Jul 28, 2011
At China Real Time Report, Brian Spegele describes two pastors and the house churches they lead, whose differences illustrate the broad spectrum of Chinese drawn to Christianity. The amiable Mr. Zhang had a propensity for...
Apr 24, 2011
The crackdown on the Shouwang house church in Beijing intensified over the Easter weekend. From the New York Times: The authorities stepped up a three-week campaign against an underground Christian church on Sunday, detaining...
Apr 17, 2011
Police have again detained followers of Shouwang church, an underground house church in Beijing. Last weekend, more than 100 worshippers were detained by police during a service, but most were later released. From AFP: Police...
Apr 9, 2011
A group of Christians in Beijing’s Haidian district has been detained by police, a week after their eviction from the restaurant where they had previously held services. From the Associated Press: Beijing police on Sunday...
Aug 8, 2010
Members of a Christian house church in Linfen were violently attacked by local officials, the Toronto Star reports: As he lay there he could hear a man yelling, “Beat them. Beat them as hard as you like. I’ll take responsibility...
Dec 24, 2009
From guardian.co.uk: “Before there was persecution. Now there is pressure” said an elder from Beijing’s Shouwang church in private conversation in autumn this year. He was optimistic about the group’s...
Dec 10, 2009
AP reports on the closure of China’s first mega-church: LINFEN, China – Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China’s...
Jan 26, 2009
Protestant pastors operating out of illegal “house churches” in China may soon be able to practice their religion in the open. From UPI: Recent meetings between government officials and leaders of banned underground...
Dec 19, 2008
From RFA: At least 10 members of an unofficial “house” church in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have been injured after a local property developer launched an unannounced eviction raid Wednesday on the...
Oct 3, 2008
The Economist reports on growing number of Christians in China and the political impact it might have on China someday: Zhao Xiao, a former Communist Party official and convert to Christianity, smiles over a cup of tea and says...