China Holds Sermon Contest Based on Core Socialist ValuesAugust 24, 2020 — 08/24/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A city in China’s Liaoning province is asking its Three-Self church preachers to compete against each other, in order to determine who can best...
Henan Province Encourages Citizens to Report on Illegal Religious ActivitiesAugust 24, 2020 — 08/23/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A county in China’s Henan province has announced on August 20 that it will conduct an intensive campaign to clamp down illegal religious activities...
China Used COVID-19 to Suppress Underground CatholicsAugust 20, 2020 — 08/20/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Although COVID-19 has no longer grabbed the headlines in China, the Chinese government is using the pandemic to target underground Catholics to coerce them...
Hefty Fine Imposed on Christian Who Held Online Bible StudyAugust 17, 2020 — 08/16/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On August 11, a Christian man in China’s Yunnan province received a notice of administrative punishment from the local Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau...
China Raids Moms Group Held at HomeAugust 14, 2020 — 08/14/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On August 12, the moms group of an influential house church in China’s Xiamen was raided by the local authorities as they gathered at a...
China Silences Persecuted Priest Ahead of Vatican Deal RenewalAugust 13, 2020 — 08/12/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A Chinese priest in China’s Fujian province, who was previously tortured by the government to force him to join the official church, has been summoned...
Catholic Schools in Hong Kong Asked to Foster Correct National IdentityAugust 10, 2020 — 08/10/2020 Hong Kong (International Christian Concern) – As China increasingly extends its influence into its special administrative region, Hong Kong, the Diocese of Hong Kong has also been pressed to tighten...
Underground Bishops Banned from Officiating FuneralAugust 8, 2020 — 08/08/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – In China's Shanghai Diocese, underground clergy are recently told that they are unable to use the city's largest funeral parlor after their priests were barred...
Chinese Christian Detained for Street EvangelismAugust 6, 2020 — 08/06/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On August 3, a Christian in China’s Hunan province was sentenced by the authorities to 10 days in administrative detention for “illegal evangelism.” Chen Wensheng,...
New Regulations Grip Religious Accounts on Social MediaAugust 5, 2020 — 08/05/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – China's security has tightened its grip around the throat of commercial web platforms, reportedly cracking down on "illegal activities" by the Office of the...
Three Self Church in Anhui Faces Cross Removal, Preacher DetainedAugust 1, 2020 — 08/01/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – ICC recently reports that local authorities in Huainan city, Anhui province on July 12 notified the elderly members of a Three-Self church that their...
China Hacks Vatican to Get Ahead of a Sino-Vatican Deal RenewalJuly 30, 2020 — 07/30/2020 Vatican (International Christian Concern) – Months before talks on renewal of a 2018 Sino-Vatican deal that helped solve the problems on the appointment of bishops, Chinese hackers allegedly target...
China Pressures Detained Pastor to Designate State-approved LawyerJuly 27, 2020 — 07/27/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A house church pastor in China’s Hunan province who was arrested on April 2 and charged with “inciting subversion of state power,” now faces...
Police Demolish Christian Homes in ChinaJuly 26, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_single_image image="117586" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] Xiamen House Church Targeted for the Fourth Time 07/26/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on...
China to Censor Film Production with Christian ContentJuly 26, 2020 — 07/25/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – New guidelines to regulate the film content have been issued by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which concerns Catholic directors who fear that programs...
Church Crackdowns Continue in ChinaJuly 24, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Gina Goh" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1593626461628{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="117067" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 07/24/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Looking toward the epicenter and origin of the COVID-19 outbreak,...
