by Publisher | Jun 13, 2016 | China, China Aid, News
(Guiyang, Guizhou—June 13, 2016) Documents from a lawsuit filed against authorities in China’s central Guizhou province allege that officers tortured a detained house church pastor and threatened his life and family. The pastor’s two defense attorneys issued the...
by Publisher | Jun 10, 2016 | China, News
(Midland, Texas—June 10, 2016) China Aid conducted an exclusive interview on May 12 with a member of a serially targeted house church in China’s central Guizhou province. The church member, who requested anonymity, described the church’s current against persecution...
by Publisher | Apr 27, 2016 | China, News
(Zhumadian, Henan—April 27, 2016) On April 25, less than two weeks after a Christian woman died from being buried alive at a forced church demolition, local authorities ruled that the disputed land where the incident took place belongs to the church and its pastor for...
by Publisher | Apr 4, 2016 | China, News
Reported and written in Chinese by Qiao Nong. Translated by Carolyn Song. Edited in English by Ava Collins. (Changji Hui, Xinjiang—April 4, 2016) A house church gathering in Changji, a city in China’s far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was raided on March...
by Publisher | Mar 23, 2016 | China, News
Conditions of release unclear (Morning Star News) – China Aid has confirmed with relatives of Zhang Kai that the human rights attorney was released on Wednesday (March 23) after his arrest in August 2015 for defending churches. Zhang wrote on social media that he...
by Publisher | Feb 27, 2016 | China, News
(Wenzhou, Zhejiang—Feb. 25, 2016) China Aid learned that prominent human rights lawyer Zhang Kai was placed under criminal detention at 9 p.m. yesterday after serving six months in “residential surveillance in a designated location,” otherwise known as a...
by Publisher | Feb 25, 2016 | China, News
(Wenzhou, Zhejiang—Feb. 25, 2016) Today, on the six-month anniversary of prominent human rights lawyer Zhang Kai’s detention, Chinese media aired footage of the lawyer confessing to disturbing social order and endangering state secrets. Zhang was apprehended on Aug....
by Publisher | Jan 29, 2016 | China, News
(Daguan, Guizhou—Jan. 29, 2016) A public security bureau (PSB) in China’s southern Guizhou province recently transferred the cases of five Christians to the local Procuratorate for prosecution after receiving orders in late November to investigate the incident...
by Publisher | Jan 28, 2016 | China, News
(Hangzhou, Zhejiang—Jan. 28, 2015) Ten days after officials in China’s coastal Zhejiang province released a notice detailing the forced removal of a pastor from his position at China’s largest government-sanctioned church, the pastor was taken into custody today and...
by Publisher | Jan 13, 2016 | China, News
At least six Chinese human rights lawyers and their colleagues have been formally arrested on suspicion of charges relating to “subversion of state power”, six months after a crackdown on over 300 lawyers, activists and associates and family members. The six...
by Publisher | Jan 8, 2016 | Analysis, China, Front Page Analysis, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, News, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda |
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict. (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the...
by Publisher | Jan 8, 2016 | China, News
(Fuqing, Fujian—Jan. 8, 2015) Authorities in the neighboring Chinese coastal Fujian and Zhejiang provinces conducted a church demolition and two cross removals on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. A series of videos sent to China Aid shows officials in Fuqing,...
