Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that was banned by the Chinese government in 1999 but remained active in Hong Kong and ...

Leaders of Chengdu's Early Rain Covenant Church have been arrested while Wenzhou's Yayang Church is being torn down.

Even before America became the nation it is today, our lands have been a refuge where people of all faiths could live, worship and prosper. Our God-given right to worship, pray and practice religion ...

Authorities have taken away at least four members of a high-profile “house church” in Sichuan province as a campaign to root out religious organizations beyond the state’s control intensifies.

In his explicit silence on the plight of Christians in China, the pope appears to continue the policy of Pope Francis, who ...

The State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), which succeeded the Religious Affairs Bureau of the State Council, served as the primary governmental body in China responsible for overseeing ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) at an Oct. 16 hearing heard recommendations from lawmakers and advocates for addressing “severe violations of religious freedom” by the ...

Beijing on Friday criticised US Vice President Mike Pence and top diplomat Mike Pompeo as "hideous" and "hypocritical" after they called for religious freedom in China at a major meeting in Washington ...

Criticism is being leveled at Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong after he reportedly insisted that the Chinese-administered territory is free of religious persecution and that Beijing wants ...

(New York) – Chinese authorities have detained half a dozen members of an underground Protestant church based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Human Rights Watch said today. This was the latest in a ...