CSW is concerned by the Vatican’s recent decision to sign a provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops with China, which comes amid a crackdown on religious communities across the country, including the detention of Catholic clergy and restrictions on their religious practice. The agreement was signed on 22 September 2018. Details of the deal […]
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China issued draft regulations on the management of Internet Religious Information Services on 10 September, which stipulate that those wishing to disseminate religious teachings and information online must apply for a license and meet certain requirements. The draft suggests a broad range of online actions would be covered, including “texts, pictures, audio and video, etc. through Internet
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CSW is calling for the release of Wang Quanzhang and those who are still detained following a spate of arrests of human rights lawyers across China, which began on 9 July 2015. Over 300 lawyers, human rights defenders and their colleagues and family members were detained, interrogated, or imprisoned in what is known as the
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Pastor Yang Hua of Living Stone Church in Guizhou Province, China was released from prison on 19 June. Pastor Yang Hua of Living Stone Church in Guizhou Province, China was from prison in the early hours of 19 June after completing a two and a half year sentence. According to friends and supporters, he is
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Pastor Su Tianfu of Living Stone Church in Guizhou Province, China has been sentenced to one year in prison suspended for two years, with a further six months’ residential surveillance. Pastor Su stood trial on 26 April 2018, having been under house arrest since December 2015. The church’s other pastor, Yang Hua, was also placed
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CSW is concerned by reports of actions taken by the authorities in Chinas Henan Province. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned by reports that authorities in China’s Henan Province have demolished crosses and churches, destroyed religious materials, and forbidden children from attending serves in Protestant and Catholic churches. On 17 April, a Catholic church in
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Chinese state media agency Xinhua announced on 21 March that the United Front Work Department, an agency of the Communist Party of China (CPC), will now oversee ethnic and religious affairs in the country. These changes are part of a restructuring of party agencies in China, which place the Chinese government more directly under Party
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On the occasion of the Prime Minister’s visit to China from 31 January to 2 February, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) calls on Theresa May to raise freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) concerns with the Chinese government, and to publicly refer to the UK’s concerns about human rights violations in China. The Prime Minister’s first
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Christians have been detained, and churches shut down or destroyed in China in the month before revised Regulations on Religious Affairs are due to come into effect on 1 February. Christians have been detained, and churches shut down or destroyed in China in the month before revised Regulations on Religious Affairs are due to come
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A new commentary by Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng says the human rights situation in China has deteriorated to an unprecedented level, in “harshest and most brutal political oppression since the end of Mao Zedong’s rule”. Gao Zhisheng was ‘disappeared’ in August 2017 and is believed to be in custody in Beijing. His commentary,
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