China Attempts New Propaganda Efforts Against Christians

June 4, 2019 — 06/04/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Radio Free Asia reports that in China’s southeastern province of Jiangxi, local authorities are attempting to blame poverty on religious beliefs by launching a...

Chinese Marriage Scam Targets Foreign Christian Girls

June 3, 2019 — 06/03/2019 China (International Christian Concern) –Pakistani police are investigating a three-member group involved in a Chinese marriage scam that targets Christian girls. This new investigation follows the arrests of more...

Hearing Held for China’s Xunsiding Church

June 1, 2019 — 06/01/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – On May 31, five Christians were called to testify for Xunsiding Church, a house church in China’s southeastern Xiamen banned by the government on...

China Bans Historic Church in Xiamen

May 24, 2019 — Church Members Banned from Entering Property 05/24/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on May 19, more than 70 officials from China’s southeastern Fujian...

Poor Pakistani Christian Women Exploited by Chinese Men

May 22, 2019 — 05/22/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – There has been a major problem involving poor Pakistani women, Christian and Muslim, sold as brides to Chinese husbands and then forced into prostitution...

Catholics in Hebei Block Demolition Attempt

May 17, 2019 — 05/17/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Chinese Catholics in Hebei province have stationed themselves at a shrine to prevent the government from dismantling holy statues. According to UCA News, when...

China Wants the House Church to Vanish

May 15, 2019 —

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05/15/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In the 2018 superhero film Avengers: Infinity War, when the villain Thanos...

The Vatican Secretary of State Became First Interviewee of China’s State Media

May 13, 2019 — 05/13/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Against a backdrop of thawed Sino-Vatican relations, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, was interview by Global Times, a Beijing newspaper linked...

Shandong Intensifies Crackdown Against Churches With “Henan Model”

May 12, 2019 — 05/12/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – China has been demolishing more than thousands of crosses in Henan province, with the aim to clamp down on Christianity in a place that...

Chinese Underground Bishop Missing for Over 20 Years

May 8, 2019 — 05/08/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – No one knows the whereabouts of Bishop James Su Zhimin of Baoding in Hebei province, who has been missing since 1996. Bishop Su, an...

Church Demolished in Hebei for Being “Too Visible”

May 7, 2019 — 05/07/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Last night, local authorities in Hebei began demolishing the Catholic church of the village of Shen Liu in the diocese of Handan. The huge...

Pastor John Cao Celebrates Another Birthday Imprisoned

May 3, 2019 — 05/03/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Today marks the 59th birthday of Chinese Pastor John Sanqiang Cao, yet he will spend it for third year straight incarcerated in China’s Yunnan...

Religious Freedom Report Highlights Persecution in China

May 1, 2019 — 05/01/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its annual religious freedom report on April 29. In that report, China was considered a...

Chinese Pastors of State-Sanctioned Churches Fear Growing Government Manipulation

April 30, 2019 — 04/30/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – The government of China only sanctions two church groups: The Protestant Three-Self Church and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church. Over a third of China’s...

Christianity Grows in China Despite Persecution

April 29, 2019 — 04/29/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – China is historically known for its animosity towards Christianity. Because Christianity teaches freedom of choice and responsibility, the atheistic communist government views it as...

Hong Kong Christians May Fall Victim to Revised Extradition Laws

April 28, 2019 — 04/28/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Hong Kong is planning to amend its extradition laws to allow suspects to be sent to mainland China, a move that comes widely criticized...