Tag: religious persecution
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ACLJ Urges Trump to Press Xi for Pastor John Cao’s Passport as Stage-4 Cancer Spreads
Pastor John Cao says five passport applications have failed as advocates urge Beijing to let the U.S. permanent resident return for late-stage cancer treatment.
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Detained Zion Church Pastor Liu Zhenbin Says Prosecutor Invoked His Young Children to Press for Confession
A pastor of Beijing Zion Church detained in southern China says a prosecutor invoked his young children in an effort to press him into a confession, according to a letter from detention made public by the U.S.-based religious-freedom…
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Rapid Response: White House Summit Readout Omits Political Prisoners After Week of Advocacy Push
VERIFIED FACT: The White House released its official readout of President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House on September 24, 2026, and it contains no mention of political prisoners, detained Americans,…
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Pastor Lian Xuliang Released After Four-Year Case Against Xi’an Church of Abundance; Father and Co-Defendant’s Status Unknown
Pastor Lian Xuliang (廉旭亮) of the Xi’an Church of Abundance returned home on September 5, more than four years after Chinese authorities began a fraud prosecution against him, his father and a fellow preacher over the unregistered house…
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Early Rain Church: Two Members Released After 10-Day Detention; Elder Yan Hong Forcibly Taken From Home Again
Two members of Chengdu’s Early Rain Covenant Church were released after serving 10 days of administrative detention for attending a September 11 reading gathering, while police forcibly took Elder Yan Hong from his home on September 20 for…
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Jinzhai House Church Raid: Police Detain Two Female Preachers, Ban Hymns Naming Jesus
Chinese authorities carried out a two-day operation against an underground house church in Jinzhai County, western Anhui Province, on September 16–17, 2026 — confiscating believers’ phones, forcibly taking two female preachers for questioning, and ordering young Christians to…
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Rapid Response: Bipartisan Senators Urge Trump to Press Xi on Jailed Pastors and Religious Persecution
September 23, 2026 — Ten U.S. senators, led by Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), sent a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump on September 22, 2026, urging him to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Beijing’s…