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City in China Pays Citizens $1,500 to Report Christian Neighbors
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Megan Bailey
A city in southern China is offering cash to citizens willing to inform on “illegal religious groups,” ramping up China’s crackdown on underground churches. The Guangzhou Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs officially announced the offer on its website to anyone who provides information about the structure of an illegal religious group, or information leading…
Christianity Crackdown: China Forbids Print Shops From Printing Anything About Jesus
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Christians hoping to celebrate the New Year with a religious calendar are in for a nasty surprise. Those living in China’s Henan province recently learned that such things have been forbidden by the regime as part of its ever increasing crackdown on Christianity. A member of Xigong district’s De’en Church said that his congregation had…
China Bans One of the 10 Commandments as Part of Crackdown on Christianity
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
It is sad when a country’s record of religious persecution is so poor that its actions do not even cause surprise anymore. Despite billing itself as a developed and free country, China is nothing of the sort. The basic rights that the Constitution guarantees Americans in the First Amendment do not exist under China’s communist…
Churchgoers Snatched Off Streets, Arrested, Tortured in Latest Chinese Crackdown on Religion
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
China’s crackdown on religious freedom continued last weekend with a raid in southwestern China. Nearly 100 Christians were snatched off the streets or dragged from their homes in a series of coordinated raids. Members of the Early Rain Covenant Church were particularly targeted in the raids. Around the same time that the raids began, members’…
American Christian Pastor Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison in China
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Megan Bailey
Christian pastor John Sanqiang Cao has been sentenced to Chinese prison. In March 2017, Caro and a friend used a bamboo raft to cross from China into Myanmar. He had made the trip many times before to take supplies and food into the country. He and fellow Chinese Christian teachers would carry with them notebooks,…
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