After refusing to install security cameras inside of their house church, the Chinese government shut down the church Zion. The church was also reportedly meeting without registering, an action that has caused many churches across China to close their doors.
Chinese officials are offering money to citizens who submit images of underground churches to the government.
In recent months, China’s communist government has expanded its ban on Christian funerals.
Recently, the Intercept reported that Lenovo, the world’s largest manufacturer of laptops, “has imported an estimated 258,000 laptops” built by a certain Chinese manufacturer named Hefei Bitland. Through this manufacturer, Lenovo “participates in a Chinese government program that provides factories with cheap labor from persecuted Uighurs.” “Cheap labor,” in this case, means “forced labor.”
According to Bitter Winter, a persecution watchdog group, the Chinese government has removed at least 900 crosses from churches in a single province since the start of this year.
According to a recent report, hospital workers performed forced abortions of religious minorities as to limit the number of children they are allowed to have.
A Christian in China was fined more than $2,000 for holding an online Bible study.
An 84-year-old Christian in China was forced to remove Christian imagery from their homes and replace them with pictures of President Xi Jinping.
According to Christian persecution watchdog Bitter Winter, the Chinese communist party is forcing religious groups to donate to state coronavirus relief funds or else they will not be allowed to reopen.
Churches in China are being used to push the Communist agenda and to slander the United States.
