Activists say the unprecedented round-up could be the beginning of a wider crackdown on China's underground churches.

Persecution of Christians worldwide has increased significantly in both quantity and intensity, human rights experts in ...

A conference at Dallas Baptist University will focus on religious persecution worldwide. The Pew Research Center reports that ...

After 30 arrested in raid on an underground church, is China cracking down on Christians? - Head pastor’s daughter says she ...

BEIJING — Police in China detained dozens of pastors of one of its largest underground churches over the weekend, a church ...

China has launched a sweeping and unprecedented crackdown on Christians, targeting Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Zion Church, ...

Since Thursday, police have detained nearly 30 pastors and staff members of Zion Church, an influential Chinese house church ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) heard recommendations for addressing religious freedom ...

China has in recent years arrested and detained Christian leaders of underground churches, who are not registered with the ...

The church’s pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, turned Zion Church into one of China’s largest unofficial congregations, even as ...

Governments around the world have been warned that China's crackdown on Christianity reveals its "tightening ideological ...

Among those detained is Pastor Jin Mingri, also known as Ezra Jin. Jin is the founder of Beijing’s Zion Church and was ...