Religious Freedom

Mr. Xu Shujun was detained by police for hanging up information banners about the Chinese regime’s persecution of his faith.

Ezra Jin Mingri was detained on Oct. 10, 2025, at his home in Beihai, located in China’s southeastern Guangxi Province.

China’s rubber-stamp legislature adopted the measure, effective from July 1, to strictly promote the Mandarin language from preschool.

The show depicted traditional Chinese culture and may have alluded to the communist regime’s oppressive rule, commentators said.

Religious persecution is ‘a warning sign that freedom itself is under siege,’ says the former ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

‘Silence is the oxygen for tyranny,’ a Uyghur activist said.

State-controlled Catholic bodies now require priests and nuns to surrender passports, bringing religious travel under strict CCP oversight.

Rights groups say Chinese Christians have faced escalating repression in recent years.

Authorities limit church services, campus activity, and public displays, leaving holiday events largely confined to officially sanctioned venues.

Daughter of jailed Chinese church leader, pastors share sorrow and resilience amid Beijing’s ongoing suppression of faith.

Ongoing arrests and opaque trials highlight Beijing’s heightened control over activists, religious groups, and political expression.

Uyghurs, Christians, Tibetans, and Falun Gong practitioners have faced ’targeted repression,' it states.

Mingri “Ezra” Jin, founder of the Beijing Zion Church, and other arrested church workers could face up to three years in prison.

Geng Jiping drifted into deep depression after her family fell apart, but through faith, she reconciled with her past and found a new purpose in life.

An elderly woman was tortured until she vomited blood for refusing to renounce her faith, and passed away in September.

The wave of arrests comes amid new regulations issued last month banning unauthorized online preaching, ‘foreign collusion,’ and unsanctioned clergy training.

“We hope the world will have peace, the CCP’s rule will end, and China will welcome freedom,” a man from Jilin Province said in his greeting.

Many of the dissidents accused the CCP of extending coercive power overseas.

‘The authorities will also use this as a pretext to target normal religious activities, as a way to suppress human rights,’ a China expert said.

Mr. Xu Shujun was detained by police for hanging up information banners about the Chinese regime’s persecution of his faith.

Ezra Jin Mingri was detained on Oct. 10, 2025, at his home in Beihai, located in China’s southeastern Guangxi Province.

China’s rubber-stamp legislature adopted the measure, effective from July 1, to strictly promote the Mandarin language from preschool.

The show depicted traditional Chinese culture and may have alluded to the communist regime’s oppressive rule, commentators said.

Religious persecution is ‘a warning sign that freedom itself is under siege,’ says the former ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

‘Silence is the oxygen for tyranny,’ a Uyghur activist said.

State-controlled Catholic bodies now require priests and nuns to surrender passports, bringing religious travel under strict CCP oversight.

Rights groups say Chinese Christians have faced escalating repression in recent years.

Authorities limit church services, campus activity, and public displays, leaving holiday events largely confined to officially sanctioned venues.

Daughter of jailed Chinese church leader, pastors share sorrow and resilience amid Beijing’s ongoing suppression of faith.

Ongoing arrests and opaque trials highlight Beijing’s heightened control over activists, religious groups, and political expression.

Uyghurs, Christians, Tibetans, and Falun Gong practitioners have faced ’targeted repression,' it states.

Mingri “Ezra” Jin, founder of the Beijing Zion Church, and other arrested church workers could face up to three years in prison.

Geng Jiping drifted into deep depression after her family fell apart, but through faith, she reconciled with her past and found a new purpose in life.

An elderly woman was tortured until she vomited blood for refusing to renounce her faith, and passed away in September.

The wave of arrests comes amid new regulations issued last month banning unauthorized online preaching, ‘foreign collusion,’ and unsanctioned clergy training.

“We hope the world will have peace, the CCP’s rule will end, and China will welcome freedom,” a man from Jilin Province said in his greeting.

Many of the dissidents accused the CCP of extending coercive power overseas.

‘The authorities will also use this as a pretext to target normal religious activities, as a way to suppress human rights,’ a China expert said.