Wang Qiang has never met his son. His wife was seven months pregnant when he was violently arrested outside his workplace in Linfen, China on 1 November 2022, and he has not seen his family – including also his four-year-old daughter Mimi – since then.
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Xixi hasn’t seen her father Han Xiaodong since he was arrested in August 2022. She was just five years old at the time, and she and her two younger brothers have been afraid to sleep in their own beds ever since.
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Preacher Li Jie and his wife Li Shanshan were among the earliest members of Covenant Home (“Shengyue Jiayuan”) Church which was founded in early 2018, the same year that the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force and the Chinese government began a sweeping crackdown on unregistered ‘house’ churches like Covenant Home which continues to date.
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Under the rule of Xi Jinping the situation for almost every religion or belief community in China has deteriorated amid a worsening picture for human rights across the country, but for groups labelled ‘xie jiao’, this has been a reality for decades.
Despite the Chinese government’s boasting of its progress in promoting the rule of law, confidence in China’s legal system remains low. Religion and belief groups have witnessed how the CCP regime has been effectively strengthening its ‘rule by law’ instead.
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Authorities in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province resorted to various illegal measures to prevent leaders and members of Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) from taking part in an online prayer meeting on 9 December 2023.
Three leaders of Linfen Covenant House (‘Shengyue Jiayuan’) Church in China’s northern Shanxi Province have been accused of forming a criminal ‘clique’ and obtaining ‘illegal income’ amounting to 780,000 yuan (approx. £85,000), according to a statement published by the church on 29 June.
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Five Christians who had been detained since August 2022 for leading Bible studies were released on bail by the authorities in China’s Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province on 7 May.
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Three members of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, have been detained, and many families have been subject to forced evictions, according to a statement published by the church on 26 March.
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The US-based Christian organization China Aid has reported that Uyghur house church pastor Alimujiang Yimiti was released from prison upon completion of a 15-year sentence in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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