Attempting to cut off Ms. Ren’s family’s relationship with the ERCC, police officers threatened to terminate the adoption of Jiawen, three-years-old at that time. “The child is growing up in a cultish family; therefore, we want to save him.” Mr....
Millions of Falun Gong adherents have been held in prisons, labor camps, psychiatric hospitals, and other detention facilities in China. Hundreds of thousands have been tortured in those venues in a bid to force practitioners to give up their belief.
while proclaiming that the Great Sage Dynasty has been consigned to “the dustbin of history” thanks to the swift reaction by the authorities, in 2021, the 35th anniversary of the foundation of the movement, several Party-controlled Chinese media have published...
The secretary could not find any evidence that Pastor Yang Hua committed any illegal acts, nevertheless, this Party official lost control of his emotions. When he knocked Pastor Yang down, he yelled, “Believe it or not, I can beat you...
Secretary Blinken introduced the report on May 12 by singling out China as a country that “criminalizes religious expression” in general. Blinken did not avoid two politically significant definitions: “crimes against humanity” for how China treats religion, and “genocide” for...
The Chinese regime “restricts religion in a variety of ways, including banning entire religious groups (such as the Falun Gong movement and several Christian groups), prohibiting certain religious practices, raiding places of worship and detaining and torturing individuals.”
“It felt that my arms were nearly broken, so much so that I sweated all over the body, and could not help screaming,” she told Bitter Winter, adding that she was tormented this way for several times, and was given...
In several provinces, the National Security Education Day was celebrated with lectures calling the students to fight against the xie jiao, be alert on the possibility that some on campus may attend illegal religious activities, and report them to the...
The forced closure of four prominent house churches within less than two years received wide publicity in the West. These churches, known for large numbers of congregations and their firm stances in defying the CCP’s restrictive religious policies
