BEIJING >> At least two pastors from an underground Beijing church were in police custody and numerous other leaders remained under house arrest Sunday as part of a crackdown on the unregistered ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Days after flying to Thailand to seek asylum, members of a Chinese church huddled in a restaurant to share their stories with journalists. But when they peered over their shoulders, ...

BEIJING (AP)-- Beijing church leaders will ordain a new bishop this week, a senior religious official said Monday, filling an influential post that had been closely watched to gauge whether the ...

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the head pastor of Zion church, an unofficial Protestant "house" church in Beijing, China, August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Amid tackling every other world ...

For many Christian visitors to Beijing, a downtown church provides not only a place of worship but also a good place to understand the religion's history in this vast Asian cosmopolitan. With the ...

Beijing authorities who shut down a Christian church after its pastor criticised new curbs on religion have now ordered it to pay 1.2 million yuan ($170,000) in back rent and removal costs. The Zion ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Zion church in Beijing, one of the city's largest unofficial Protestant "house" churches, has operated with relative freedom for years, hosting hundreds of worshippers every ...

Shouwang vows to continue showdown until Christmas in hopes of ending Achilles’ heel of unregistered churches: government pressure on landlords. The global media spotlight has recently centered on the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The story of the exile of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church illustrates how the Chinese government is going to increasing lengths to control religious faith and its citizens, even far ...