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China’s ‘underground’ churches told to seek ‘guidance’ from state-approved bodies

June 22, 2018 China Catholics, China, Communism, Henan, House churches, Jiangxi, Religious freedom, Sinicisation, Three-Self Patriotic Movement, Xi Jinping, Zhejiang

A house church meeting in China in 2005. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...more serious, yet at this moment we don’t feel much different”. One hundred churches were closed in Nanyang, in central Henan province, in the month of March alone. Ma said...

Chinese pastor released after two and a half years in prison

June 20, 2018 China China, Churches, Guizhou, Huoshi Church, Prisons, Religious freedom, Su Tianfu, Yang Hua

...church as pressure on Henan Christians increases China’s Communist Party increases control over religious affairs Since the implementation of new regulations on religion in February, pressure on China’s Christians and...

China: Beijing house churches investigated and ordered to close

May 21, 2018 China Beijing, China, House churches, Religious freedom

Cross of a state-sanctioned Three-Self church in Beijing is visible just above the facades of the city while China's government is trying to get more control over house churches. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...pressure on Christians China: Protestant pastor found guilty of ‘intentionally divulging state secrets’ China: children stopped from entering church as pressure on Henan Christians increases China’s Communist Party increases control...

China: Pastor and 200 church members detained for commemorating earthquake

May 17, 2018 China Chengdu, China, Churches, Communism, House churches, Mao Zedong, Religion Law, Religious freedom, Sichuan, Sinicisation, Xi Jinping

People are sifting through the rubble to look for personal items after their homes were destroyed in an earthquake. (World Watch Monitor, 2008)

...in Henan province, and children being stopped from attending church services, is rooted in policies that were initially formulated in 2015. Under the presidency of Xi Jinping, China’s Communist Party...

China: children stopped from entering church as pressure on Henan Christians increases

May 9, 2018 China Anyang, Catholics, Children, China, Churches, Communism, Education, Henan, House churches, Protestants, Xi Jinping, Zhengzhou

Under new religious regulations in China, religious education to minors is prohibited. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Pressure on Christians is increasing in China’s central Henan province, according to Catholic news service UCAN. Suppressive measures on both Catholic and Protestant churches have been directed by the central...

China: ‘For Christians, the “grey” area is shrinking’

April 16, 2018 China Beijing, Bibles, China, Churches, Communism, Nanjing, Three-Self Patriotic Movement, Xi Jinping

China's Communist Party is trying to suppress rapid growth among religions.(Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...lack of communication channels, the new regulations are a small thing,” a Beijing pastor told World Watch Monitor. ‘Grey area’ Learn more China: clampdown reaches Christians in Henan ‘Uncontrolled’ growth...

China: clampdown reaches Christians in Henan

April 11, 2018 China Anyang, Beijing, China, Crosses, Education, Henan, House churches, Religious freedom, Zhejiang

...religious affairs and practice in the country resulting in, among others, the controversial cross-removal campaign in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. Focus on Henan Meanwhile in Henan’s northern Anyang...

China’s Communist Party increases control over religious affairs

March 27, 2018 China China, Communism, Crosses, Henan, Minorities, Religious freedom, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang, Zhejiang

The opening ceremony of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, held in October 2017. The Congress is the most important political event in China where decisions taken by the Central Committee are endorsed. (Photo by Prachatai via Flickr; CC 2.0)

...in China ‘makes government nervous’ “While some [reported] incidents in Henan Province are confirmed as true, it seems not to happen in all places in Henan or in other provinces,”...

China bans children – and their teachers – from churches

September 8, 2017 China Children, China, Communism, Fujian, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Three-Self Patriotic Movement, Wenzhou, Zhejiang

...where a relatively high percentage of Christians live – in the neighbouring eastern provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Henan, and also the autonomous northern region of Inner Mongolia. Children...

Jailed Chinese pastor ‘close to death following torture’

June 30, 2017 China Henan, Nanle, Zhang Shaojie

...Shaojie of Nanle County Church in Henan Province is “barely alive”, according to his daughter, Esther Zhang Huixin. She told the US-based rights charity China Aid he is suffering both...

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