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05-11-2021 China s Communist Party continues to crack down on independent house churches throughout the country. Some religious rights observers report the limited tolerance granted to some of the churches before the rise of President Xi Jinping is rapidly coming to an end. The magazine Bitter Winter reports the house churches must join the government-controlled Three-Self Church or go to jail. House churches are labeled as xie jiao, heterodox teachings, by the Chinese government and their elders and pastors prosecuted under Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code, originally conceived to crack down on banned new religious movements. Back in 2017, President Xi ordered that all religions must Sinicize to see that they are loyal to the officially atheistic party. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has severely cracked down on human rights, religious freedom, and freedom of expression. Christians are experiencing some of the worst persecution in decades. ....
A man stands in a room in a house church in Puyang, in China s central Henan province on August 13, 2018. | GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images Amid an ongoing crackdown on Christians and their churches, communist authorities in China have arrested an elder of a house church in southwestern Guizhou province in a trumped-up fraud case, according to reports. Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church in Guiyang, was arrested “on suspicion of fraud” on May 1, the day China’s new administrative measures on religious clergy went into effect, the United Kingdom-based nonprofit Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported. In its newsletter, the house church decried the arrest as a “serious trampling on the Christian faith.” ....
Early Rain Covenant Church in China | Facebook/Early Rain Covenant Church Communist authorities arrested a preacher from the heavily-persecuted house church in southwestern Chinaâs Sichuan province, Early Rain Covenant Church, for âallegedly disturbing public orderâ by officiating a memberâs funeral. Preacher Wu Wuqing was arrested by officers from Damian Police Station in Chengdu cityâs Longquanyi District on Friday afternoon, hours after the funeral service, the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern reported, saying it learned about the arrest from ERCCâs prayer request. Wu, who s also been persecuted in the past, was released late in the evening. ....
President Xi Jinping speaks at a conference in 2011. (Voice of America/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Article continues below advertisement ↴ The Chinese government has shut down Bible apps and Christian WeChat public accounts, as part of a series of restrictive measures against Christianity that came into effect on May 1. According to a tweet by Father Francis Liu from the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness, it is not possible to access some Christian sites on WeChat and “a few snapshots of Christian accounts’ landing page no longer show any content,” International Christian Concern (ICC) reported. Instead, a message that reads “[We] received report that [this account] violates the ‘Internet User Public Account Information Services Management Provisions’ and its account has been blocked and suspended” is shown. ....