China

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian Li Mingshun has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for helping North Korean fleeing to South Korea, while her fellow Christian, Zhang Yonghu, received a seven-year sentence for organizing transportation for the refugees, trial observers said.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- China's government has issued a secret directive to dismantle at least six major house churches in and outside the capital Beijing ahead of the upcoming 60th anniversary of Communist rule in the country, according to Christian right investigators.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Two members of the Laojie Christian Church in the village of Sangdong in China's Henan province have been detained, just days after authorities officially banned their church for a second time, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, August 18.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Uyghur Christian prisoner Alimujiang Yimiti was to appear in front of a Chinese court Tuesday, July 28, on what human rights groups have described as “false charges” of “revealing state secrets or intelligence to overseas organizations,” but his wife and children are not allowed to monitor the hearing, Christians said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent, BosNewsLife BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in China's Shaanxi Province are suing law enforcement authorities for “illegally” detaining and fining them and confiscating their personal properties, in a case that could impact house churches, an advocacy group said Friday, July 25.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING. CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Tree of the five Christians arrested on July 13 in a Christian youth camp raid in Tengzhou city of Shandong province have been released, an advocacy group said Tuesday, July 21.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Security forces raided a Bible school in eastern China run by the vice-president of the Chinese House Church Alliance (CHCA) and briefly detained a dozen people, a Christian advocacy group said Monday July 20.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING/WASHINGTON (BosNewsLife)-- A petition calling for the release of a prominent Christian human rights lawyer, which was signed by some 100,000 people around the world, has been delivered to the Chinese embassy in Washington and the U.S. State Department, organizers said Friday, July 17.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- At least five Christians, including two teenagers, were behind bars Wednesday, July 15, in China's Shandong province, where worshipers and rights investigators said security forces raided a Christian youth camp and abolished a house church.

By BosNewsLife Asia Service BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Chinese American missionaries were missing and at least four Christians remained detained Monday, July 13, following a police raid on a church in China's volatile Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region where a riot last week left 184 people dead, Christians said.