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London, December 31 (World Watch Monitor) —
Chinese Christians are sharing their faith on Weibo, China’s giant,
state-regulated, social network – and some are beginning to challenge
the censor by speaking out against religious persecution.
When Christian band Rainbow Come appeared on ....
London, December 14 (World Watch Monitor) —
In a move characterised in Western media as a fresh challenge to Vatican
authority, China's state-run Catholic Church has revoked the title of
the auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai.
Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who is in his mid-forties, was ordained in ....
Colorado Springs, November 16 (World Watch Monitor) —
China introduced its new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the Chinese Communist Party to its people and the world Thursday. The
seven-man team sits at the very top of the government that will run the
world’s most populous country for ....
DUBLIN, April 25 (World Watch Monitor) — China’s
government is engaged in a three-phase campaign to eradicate Protestant
house churches, according to a statement released Friday (April 20) by
the China Aid Association (CAA). The government’s strategy was
clearly outlined in a ....
LOS ANGELES, March 30 (World Watch Monitor) — Confirmation
this week of China’s assertion in December that human rights lawyer Gao
Zhisheng is alive and serving out a prison sentence is key as efforts
continue for his release, a human rights attorney said. Gao, a
Christian whose ....
DUBLIN, January 3 (World Watch Monitor) — Authorities
in China again thwarted efforts by Shouwang Church to lease a worship
facility at the year’s end, and the Beijing congregation again met
outdoors on Sunday (Jan. 1) – resulting in the arrest of 48 members,
sources said. “The church ....
DUBLIN, December 23 (World Watch Monitor) — Key
issues in Chinese religious rights are taking a pivotal turn at year’s
end as the beleaguered Shouwang house church in Beijing will celebrate
its last outdoor service on Christmas Day, and “disappeared” human
rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has ....
DUBLIN, September 1 (World Watch Monitor) — Last
Sunday (Aug. 28) five members of a house church in Fangshan, Hebei
township woke at 4 a.m. and traveled for two hours to a public square in
Beijing in order to worship with members of the embattled Beijing
Shouwang house church. On their ....
DUBLIN, July 29 (World Watch Monitor) — Authorities
this week sentenced Shi Enhao, deputy leader of the Chinese House
Church Alliance (CHCA), to two years of “re-education through labor” – a
sentence that requires no trial or conviction, according to the China
Aid Association (CAA). ....
DUBLIN, June 30 (World Watch Monitor) — Leaders
of the troubled Shouwang house church in Beijing have established a
legal committee to assist church members facing arrest or house arrest,
the loss of employment or homes and forced relocation to their home
towns. In a press statement ....
BEIJING, June 29 (World Watch Monitor) — Chinese
authorities detained a member of one of Beijing’s largest unregistered
churches on Monday (June 27) and sent him to his home town in Shandong
Province, sources said. Three officers from Beijing’s Dongsheng police
station detained the ....
DUBLIN, June 16 (World Watch Monitor) — Police
last weekend detained a further 16 members of Beijing’s Shouwang house
church and placed several more under house arrest, while members of
China’s government-approved churches have gone to police stations to
“admonish” detained house church ....
DUBLIN, April 11 (World Watch Monitor) — Police
in China held “about two dozen” pastors and elders of Beijing’s
Shouwang Church under house arrest or at police stations over the
weekend to keep them from attending a Sunday worship service in a public
location, according to Bob Fu of the ....
LOS ANGELES, April 7 (World Watch Monitor) — One
of the largest unregistered Protestant churches in Beijing plans to
risk arrest by worshipping in the open air this Sunday (April 10) after
eviction from the restaurant where they have met for the past year.
The owner of the Old Story Club ....
DUBLIN, January 19 (World Watch Monitor) — Geng
He, wife of missing Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng, is demanding answers
from the Chinese government following new revelations of torture of her
husband. “This is the first time that I heard about the details,”
Geng, now living in the United ....
DUBLIN, October 15 (World Watch Monitor) — As
organizers prepared for the opening of the Third Lausanne International
Congress on World Evangelization tomorrow in Cape Town, South Africa,
Chinese police threatened or detained some 200 delegates who had hoped
to attend. After receiving an ....
DUBLIN, May 7 (World Watch Monitor) — Gao
Zhisheng, a Christian human rights lawyer released by Chinese officials
on April 6 and missing again since April 20, is “definitely in the
hands of Chinese security forces,” Bob Fu of the China Aid Association
(CAA) told Compass. “We’ve heard ....
DUBLIN, April 29 (World Watch Monitor) — Authorities
in Xinjiang Province recently moved Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit from
a prison in Kashgar to a prison in the provincial capital Urumqi and
allowed the first visit from family members since his arrest in January
2008, sources told ....
DUBLIN, April 9 (World Watch Monitor) — Christian
human rights activist Gao Zhisheng, kidnapped by state security agents
on Feb. 4, 2009, has been released, though he appears unable to move or
speak freely. On Tuesday (April 6) Gao told Bob Fu, president of the
U.S.-based China Aid ....
LOS ANGELES, December 8 (World Watch Monitor) — Chinese
authorities have quietly sentenced Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit
(Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) to 15 years in prison on the apparently
contrived charge of “providing state secrets to overseas organizations,”
according to China Aid ....
LOS ANGELES, December 3 (World Watch Monitor) — Bypassing
the court system, China arbitrarily sentenced five more leaders of the
Fushan Church in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, on Monday (Nov. 30), this
time to re-education labor camps for two years, according to China Aid
Association (CAA). A ....
LOS ANGELES, December 1 (World Watch Monitor) — Five
pastors arrested without a warrant in China’s Shanxi Province as they
were en route to file a complaint over the demolition of their church
building have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years.
In one of the most oppressive ....
LOS ANGELES, November 24 (World Watch Monitor) — A
Uyghur Christian in China’s troubled Xinjiang region was released last
week after serving two years in a labor camp for alleged “illegal
proselytizing” and “leaking state secrets,” according to Compass
sources. House church leader Osman ....
LOS ANGELES, October 7 (World Watch Monitor) — Following
a mob attack on a church in northeastern China and the demolition of
their worship site last month, the government put officials on alert to
use military force against churches to quell potential “unrest,”
according to a leading advocacy ....
July 3 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
July 2 (Compass Direct News) – Amid vigorous debate among scholars in
China on the status of house churches, one prominent scholar has
suggested the government offer more openness and legal standing to house
church Christians, but ....
DUBLIN, July 2 (World Watch Monitor) — Amid
vigorous debate among scholars in China on the status of house
churches, one prominent scholar has suggested the government offer more
openness and legal standing to house church Christians, but authorities
have reacted with raids, arrests, ....
June 12 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
June 11 (Compass Direct News) – Li Dunyong, one of several lawyers
involved in the defense of Uyghur house church Christian Alimjan Yimit
(Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) was effectively disbarred at the end of
May when Chinese authorities ....
DUBLIN, June 11 (World Watch Monitor) — Li
Dunyong, one of several lawyers involved in the defense of Uyghur house
church Christian Alimjan Yimit (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) was
effectively disbarred at the end of May when Chinese authorities turned
down an annual application to renew ....
LOS ANGELES, June 10 (World Watch Monitor) — A
Beijing court today found Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan guilty
of “illegal business operation” and sentenced him to three years in
prison and a 150,000 yuan (US$21,975) fine.Sources said Shi’s store
operated legally and sold only books for ....
June 10 (World Watch Monitor) — Shi
WeihanLOS ANGELES, June 10 (Compass Direct News) – A Beijing court
today found Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan guilty of “illegal
business operation” and sentenced him to three years in prison and a
150,000 yuan (US$21,975) fine. Sources ....
May 8 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
May 8 (Compass Direct News) – A U.S. government body cited increased
harassment, imprisonment and torture of members of unregistered
religious groups in China last year, which a Chinese official roundly
denied. After the U.S. Commission on ....
DUBLIN, May 7 (World Watch Monitor) — A
U.S. government body cited increased harassment, imprisonment and
torture of members of unregistered religious groups in China last year,
which a Chinese official roundly denied. After the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom ....
April 17 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
April 17 (Compass Direct News) – Family members of detained Uyghur
Christian Alimjan Yimit are increasingly concerned for his safety
following reports that police and a prison doctor escorted him in
handcuffs to a hospital in Kashgar two ....
DUBLIN, April 16 (World Watch Monitor) — Family
members of detained Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit are increasingly
concerned for his safety following reports that police and a prison
doctor escorted him in handcuffs to a hospital in Kashgar two weeks ago.
Alimjan (Alimujiang Yimiti ....
March 25 (World Watch Monitor) — LOS
ANGELES, March 25 (Compass Direct News) – Certain that Chinese
authorities are torturing Christian human rights activist Gao Zhisheng
following the escape of his family to the United States, advocacy group
China Aid Association (CAA) today urged ....
LOS ANGELES, March 24 (World Watch Monitor) — Certain
that Chinese authorities are torturing Christian human rights activist
Gao Zhisheng following the escape of his family to the United States,
advocacy group China Aid Association (CAA) today urged the international
community to take action on ....
February 25 (World Watch Monitor) — BEIJING,
February 25 (Compass Direct News) – With China’s central government
last December issuing a number of secret documents calling on provincial
officials to strive to prevent massive unrest in a rapidly collapsing
economy, observers are ....
BEIJING, February 25 (World Watch Monitor) — With
China’s central government last December issuing a number of secret
documents calling on provincial officials to strive to prevent massive
unrest in a rapidly collapsing economy, observers are watching for signs
of whether authorities will view ....
DUBLIN, February 11 (World Watch Monitor) — A
Christian defender of human rights in China – whom authorities detained
last week – detailed state-sponsored torture he suffered in 2007 in an
open letter released on Monday (Feb. 9), the same day advocacy groups
criticized a U.N. review of ....
February 11 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
February 11 (Compass Direct News) – A Christian defender of human
rights in China – whom authorities detained last week – detailed
state-sponsored torture he suffered in 2007 in an open letter released
on Monday (Feb. 9), the same day ....
February 4 (World Watch Monitor) — BEIJING,
February 4 (Compass Direct News) – Concerned by the growth of
unregistered house church groups in an uncertain political and social
climate, the Chinese government has ramped up efforts both to identify
Christians and to portray ....
BEIJING, February 4 (World Watch Monitor) — Concerned
by the growth of unregistered house church groups in an uncertain
political and social climate, the Chinese government has ramped up
efforts both to identify Christians and to portray Christianity as a
subversive foreign force. Sources ....
December 9 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
December 9 (Compass Direct News) – In recent months Chinese officials
have attempted to build bridges with the Protestant house church
movement even as police raided more unregistered congregations, arrested
Christian leaders and forced at ....
November 11 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
November 11 (Compass Direct News) – Chinese officials have yet to
declare a new court date for Alimjan Yimit, a Christian house church
leader and ethnic Uyghur in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang
detained since his arrest on Jan. 12. ....
September 5 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
September 5 (Compass Direct News) – Beijing Christian bookstore owner
Shi Weihan is awaiting the outcome of an August 19 court appearance and
may be back in court within 10 days, according to Compass sources.
Denied proper medication and ....
August 20 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
August 20 (Compass Direct News) – As the Olympics draw to a close, new
evidence of religious freedom abuses offers a stark contrast to China’s
efforts to provide religious services for athletes and visitors during
the Games. China hired ....
August 13 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
August 13 (Compass Direct News) – Christian activist and house church
pastor Hua Huiqi wrote an open letter to U.S. President George Bush on
Sunday (August 10), asking for prayer for his personal safety and for
freedom of belief for all ....
August 11 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
August 11 (Compass Direct News) – Security agents yesterday seized
Christian activist and house church pastor Hua Huiqi on his way to a
service at the government-approved Kuanjie Protestant Church in Beijing,
where U.S. President George Bush ....
August 8 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
August 7 (Compass Direct News) – Chinese police detained house church
leader Zhang Mingxuan, along with his wife Xie Fenlang and co-pastor Wu
Jiang He, at a police station in Hebei after a BBC journalist attempted
to interview him on Monday ....
August 6 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
August 5 (Compass Direct News) – As U.S. President George W. Bush
attends Olympic events in Beijing this week and a church service in the
capital next Sunday, Chinese authorities have banished house church
pastor Zhang Mingxuan from the city ....
June 20 (World Watch Monitor) — LOS
ANGELES, June 20 (Compass Direct News) – A hearing expected yesterday
by relatives of Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan, detained in a
Chinese prison without charges, did not take place. Sources in China had
said that a court date was ....
June 17 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
June 17 (Compass Direct News) – Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan,
detained in a Chinese prison without his medication for diabetes, is due
in court Thursday (June 19) to face as yet unspecified charges. As
Shi’s health deteriorates, ....
May 30 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
May 30 (Compass Direct News) – Court officials in Xinjiang, China
returned the case of Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit, charged with
unspecified crimes, to state prosecutors this week citing “insufficient
evidence.” Police arrested Alimjan on ....
May 22 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
May 22 (Compass Direct News) – When the International Olympic Committee
in July 2001 awarded China the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics,
Chinese citizens were ecstatic. But what potentially could have been
China’s proudest moment has ....
May 13 (World Watch Monitor) — DUBLIN,
May 13 (Compass Direct News) – Court officials in Kashgar, Xinjiang
province may soon decide the fate of Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit,
arrested on January 12 and accused of “endangering national security.”
Alimjan’s trial, delayed in ....
May 2 (World Watch Monitor) — LOS
ANGELES, May 2 (Compass Direct News) – An advocacy organization
reported this week that Chinese authorities now accuse a Beijing
businessman of being a “dangerous religious element” – which a long-time
friend dismissed as contrary to Christian ....
April 18 (World Watch Monitor) — LOS
ANGELES, April 18 (Compass Direct News) – A bookstore owner in Beijing
has been re-arrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature
after he had been released in January due to “insufficient evidence.”
Shi Weihan, a 37-year-old father of ....
April 9 (World Watch Monitor) — Alimjan
YimitBANGKOK, April 9 (Compass Direct News) – As China deals with the
fallout of protests in Tibet and alleged protests in neighboring
Xinjiang province, the family of a Uyghur Christian fears he may be
sentenced to death this month after ....
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