China’s New Silk RoadOctober 16, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Andrew Crane" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1600959933175{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="118472" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 10/16/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Once used by traders over a millennium ago, the Silk...
Religious Publications or Materials Increasingly Banned in ChinaOctober 15, 2020 — 10/15/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Published religious materials not approved by the government are now facing increasing scrutiny in China. The publishers will be punished, their materials confiscated. According...
ERCC Elder Forcibly Taken Away, Children ThreatenedOctober 11, 2020 — 10/11/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Today, before the heavily persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Chengdu was about to begin its online worship, elder Li Yingqiang, who recently...
Yunnan Pastor and His Parents Have Been MissingOctober 11, 2020 — 10/10/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A pastor from the Miao ethnic minority (also known as Hmong) in China’s Yunnan province has been missing along with his parents for more...
TSPM Online Book Store Self-censors and Avoids Using the Word “Christ”October 9, 2020 — 10/09/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – The China Christian Council (CCC) and Three-Self Patriotic Movement, commonly known as the “lianghui” (two organizations) in China, govern all things for state-sanctioned churches....
Underground Chinese Bishop Resigned Ahead of Sino-Vatican Deal RenewalOctober 8, 2020 — 10/08/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A Chinese bishop who has been at the center of a controversial Sino-Vatican agreement recently resigned during the last mass he officiated in Mindong...
Xi Jinping’s Philosophy to be Taught at Elite University CampusesOctober 8, 2020 — 10/07/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – According to the Sept. 1 edition of Qiushi, a political theory journal published by the Communist Party, beginning this fall semester, 37 universities across...
Unregistered Chinese Catholics Face Increased Pressure Ahead of Deal RenewalOctober 4, 2020 — 10/04/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Although there have been delays for both sides to renew the controversial 2018 Sino-Vatican provisional agreement on bishop appointment, the Chinese government does not...
ERCC Elder Harassed and Followed After His Return to SichuanOctober 3, 2020 — 10/03/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC)’s elder Li Yingqiang, who was forced to leave Sichuan after he was released from his detention in August 2019,...
Ode to Joy Banned in China for Religious ReasonsOctober 2, 2020 — 10/02/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – According to a recent WeChat conversation snapshot allegedly from between a professor of Conducting Department at China Conservatory of Music and others, China is...
Chinese Christian Bookseller Sentenced to Seven Years in PrisonOctober 1, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"] Online Bookstore Owner Charged with “Illegal Business Operations” 10/01/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Chinese Christian online bookstore...
Pope Francis Did Not Receive Hong Kong’s Emeritus BishopSeptember 29, 2020 — 09/29/2020 Hong Kong (International Christian Concern) – Last week, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, travelled to Rome with the hope to appeal to Pope Francis a...
US Secretary of State Criticizes Vatican Agreement with ChinaSeptember 29, 2020 — 09/29/2020 Washington, DC (International Christian Concern) - Last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo published an opinion piece in First Things, a conservative Catholic journal on religion and public...
Kidnapped Priest Tortured to Force Him to Join State-Sanctioned ChurchSeptember 28, 2020 — 09/28/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A priest from the Diocese of Mindong who was kidnapped by the Chinese government, was tortured during his detention in an effort to solicit...
Textbook in China Horribly Distorts Biblical Story to Teach Professional Ethics and LawSeptember 27, 2020 — 09/27/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), Christians in China are upset about the distortion of a Biblical story presented in a...
Fifty Chinese Christians Arrested in Raid on House ChurchSeptember 25, 2020 — 09/25/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – China's Public Security Bureau of Nanbu deployed over 30 police officers to raid an underground Protestant house church, known as Sola Fide. When police...
