Report: Christian Persecution Expected to Rise in India, China in 2021
LONDON, England (WordNews.org) Jan. 3, 2021 — Christian persecution is expected to increase in 2021 around the world, with concerns growing in China and India, according to a forecast in Release International’s Persecution Trends survey. Release International is an inter-denominational Christian ministry based in England that works through local churches in more than 25 countries […]
Read More →Bomb levels $2.6M persecuted church in Shanix, China; Concerns rises that more churches will be destroyed
LINFEN, Shanix, China (WordNews.org) Jan. 11, 2018 – An explosion reduced to rubble a church China Aid describes as “serially persecuted” in China’s northern Shanxi province. According to China Aid, authorities bombed and demolished the Golden Lampstand Church, an unregistered church that cost $2.6 million to build in 2009. Chinese military police detonated explosives in […]
Read More →U.S church leader arrested after house church raided in China
NANYANG, Henan, China (WordNews.org) April 22, 2013 – A United States church leader is under house arrest in China after police raised a house church during a revival meeting. Dennis Balcombe’s whereabouts are unknown, according to China Aid. Balcome is the head of Hong Kong Revival Chinese Ministries International. China Aid said also in the […]
Read More →Chen Guangchen heading to US
Update: Chen Guangchen arrived in New York City Saturday night. Story here. BEIJING (WordNews.org) May 19, 2011 — The blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng’s family is en route to the United States, Fox News is reporting. ChinaAid’s Bob Fu made a phone call to Chen today. Chen told Fu at the time that a Chinese […]
Read More →Congress to hear testimony surrounding Christian’s imprisonment in China
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) Feb. 13, 2012 — “Bob” Xiqiu Fu, founder and president of China Aid Association, and the wife of imprisoned Chinese political dissident Guo Quan will testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Tuesday. The two will testify at a hearing entitled “The Case and Treatment of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng.” […]
Read More →Chinese church house leader released from prison early
ZHENGZHOU, Henan, CHINA (WordNews.org) Sept. 18. 2011 — A prominent Chinese house church leader has been released from prison nine months before the end of his prison sentence and allowed to return home, ChinaAid has learned. Zhang Rongliang’s family members report that he is in good spirits and that, apart from serious diabetes, he is […]
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