Christian School Struggling for Survival
Panshi Church, located in Zhengzhou city of central China’s Henan Province, founded “Vanilla Hill School” in August 2008, where 80 students on average attended its kindergarten and primary school.
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Bitter Winter
Bitter Winter’s Marco Respinti Receives Media Award at the Turin Book Fair
Our director-in-charge is honored for his contribution to religious liberty, as part of a day of events devoted to denouncing persecution and advancing religious freedom.
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Zealous Officials Destroy Four Temples in One Village
Motivated by a visiting central government dignitary, local authorities in Henan are taking “religious work” to the new level. Anything to please the Party.
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Closing the Door: How Rural Youth Are Denied Educational Rights in China
Education development is rocketing in China, with increasing number of top-tier national universities, especially Tsinghua University and Peking University, rank among the best in Asia. Yes, we cannot deny that educational investment in China comes to a significant success over the past decades. China has, yet, left rural education behind. A so-called academic success is far and away dominated by urban elites. Rural youths, with career hope or not, are denied from entering the door – the door to academic excellence and career diversity. At the end of the day, the rich continue to be rich, but the poor continue to be poor.
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More Blows to Three-Self Church in Henan
As the province with the most significant number of religious people, Henan continues to suffer Cultural Revolution-style crackdown on its churches.
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Control Intensified on Travels Abroad
The Chinese authorities are expanding their long-term control over private outbound travel for citizens. Last year, the restrictions were applied not only for low-level civil servants and employees of state-run enterprises but also to teachers and health-care workers. To prevent people from traveling abroad, everyone is required to hand over their passports.
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Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Their Belief
Three members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) – Liu Junhua, Yao Shuzhi, and Wu Baozhen – were gathered in the home of a fellow believer in Mudan district of Heze city in China’s eastern province of Shandong on October 24, 2017, when more than ten plainclothes police officers stormed in by kicking down the door. The three believers were writing down their experiences of believing in Almighty God, as part of their religious practices. The officers arrested all of them on suspicion of “using a xie jiao organization to undermine law enforcement,” stating that believing in Almighty God meant breaking the law.
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Organ Harvesting Tribunal 2019
According to experts that spoke at the second round of hearings of the China Tribunal against organ harvesting, held last weekend in London, the world is turning a blind eye to the “pillaging” of organs carried out with Beijing’s approval, and the practice shows no signs of abating.
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Call to Action: Time to Increase Pressure to Save Uyghurs
Repeating the message “Never Again,” broad coalition rallies to stop cultural genocide in China, call for specific US government action.
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Book in Italian on The Church of Almighty God Launched in Rome
Mondoreligioni, now in its second edition, is the largest festival of religions in Rome. It was created by Italian sociologist Emanuela Del Re, who now serves as Italy’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Several religions were present with booths, and offered shows with music and dance. One was The Church of Almighty God.
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