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A prominent Protestant pastor in Wenzhou in China’s Zhejiang Province was informed that he had been formally arrested on charges of ‘illegal business operations’ for selling recordings of sermons on 30 July. Pastor Huang Yizi was taken into custody by Pingyang Public Security alongside four other church members from Ningbo, Quzhou and Taizhou, all also […]

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has confirmed that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue after his passing, ending years of speculation. In a statement released on 2 July ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama reaffirmed that the process of identifying his successor will follow established Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He made clear that

Three leaders from the Linfen Covenant Home Church in China’s northern Shanxi Province received prison sentences on 20 June. Pastor Li Jie and Elder Han Xiaodong were each sentenced to three years and eight months in prison, and Elder Wang Qiang was sentenced to one year and 11 months, all on unfounded charges of ‘fraud.’  Li and

A group of 40 Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade were deported to China in the early hours of 27 February. Local sources, including Thai Member of Parliament Romadon Panjor, reported witnessing two sets of vehicles with covered windows transporting detainees from the International Detention Centre (IDC) in Suan Phlu, Bangkok. Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn

A group of lawyers, human rights activists and religious leaders have released an open statement decrying the Chinese government’s systematic violation of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) by accusing house churches not registered under the government of being illegal, and declaring that offerings made to these churches are therefore fraudulent. The statement, published on X (formerly Twitter) on