Demolition

Two House Church Christians in China were buried alive by developers hired by the Chinese government to tear down their church.

Residents of this dusty village are bracing for Israeli bulldozers to come and knock down their makeshift homes of tarp, wood and wire any day now

Though appealing to higher authorities is a time-honored practice from Imperial China, now it is little more than a piece of bureaucratic rhetoric.

Developers demolishing people’s houses happen regularly in China, but a recent case in central China’s Henan Province has been widely publicized, arousing outrage.

Seven people appeared to attempt to kill themselves by drinking pesticide, outside a major state newspaper company in Beijing on July 16, in an attempt to gain public attention over the demolition of their homes.

Demolitions in Oakwood Beach are the unofficial start of a process of returning the area to nature under a buyout program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.