China Government Raids House Churches, Landlords Pressured
By BosNewsLife Asia Service and BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese authorities pressure landlords to cancel their leases to house churches and security forces are raiding home congregations as part of a government campaign against Christianity, rights activists, and local Christians say.
China Pressured To Investigate Mysterious Death Of Christian Rights Lawyer Li Baiguang
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Rights activists want China to investigate the "mysterious death" of well-known Christian human rights lawyer Li Baiguang who reportedly passed away in a military hospital despite being in good health just days before. He was 49.
China Expells Hundreds Of South Korean Christians
BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Hundreds of South Korean Christians, including church leaders, have been expelled from northeastern China within the past year, BosNewsLife learned Sunday, December 10.
China Tells Christians To Abandon Christ And Believe In Party
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting from China and BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in southeast China are telling Christians to believe in the Communist Party and its leader instead of Jesus Christ, BosNewsLife established.
Leaked Report: China’s Christians Face Worst Persecution In Decades
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Prominent Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was jailed after defending prosecuted Christians and other minorities, says China now faces its “harshest and most brutal political oppression since the end of Mao Zedong’s rule.”
China Shuts Down Church-Run Acadamy Amid Tougher Religious Policies
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- Chinese Christians say authorities in China have shut down a church-run academy in the central Henan province as the ruling Communist Party has intensified government control over religious activities ahead of an important political meeting next month.
‘Chinese Pastor ‘Barely Alive’ After Torture In Prison’
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A prominent Chinese pastor is “barely alive” after suffering various forms of torture in prison, his family and activists say. Zhang Shaojie of Nanle Country Christian Church in Henan Province is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence which began in 2014
‘China Refuses Cancer Treatment For Christian Activist’
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian aid and advocacy group is raising funds for a Christian human rights defender who is in need of urgent cancer treatment that she cannot afford after a Chinese medical team allegedly canceled a crucial operation because of her work with prominent Christians and activists.
China House Church Pastor Sentenced To Prison For ‘Divulging State Secrets’
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A Chinese house church pastor who has been detained since December 9, 2015, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison by a court in China’s central Guizhou province on controversial charges of “divulging state secrets,”, trial observers said.
‘China Woman 3 Years In Jail For Holding Bible Study Meeting’
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- A local court in China’s western Xinjiang province has reportedly sentenced a Christian woman to three years in prison for holding a Bible study meeting "without government approval" and "gathering a crowd to disturb public order".