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Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church Preacher Wang Yingjie and His Wife Missing Since June 9, 2023
This morning, Brother Wang Yingjie, a preacher at Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church, and his wife, Sister Wang Ying, suddenly became unreachable. Later, it was discovered from community surveillance and information from the local police station that they were taken away by the Taiyuan Yingze District Police Station, reportedly to execute an administrative detention order dated…
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“Commemorating 64, Surpassing 64 – Viewing the June Fourth Movement from a Christian Faith Perspective
For over thirty years, the candlelight vigil in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park commemorating June 4th was forcibly extinguished for the first time. Originally, we had no plan to do this program, but when the candlelight could not be lit in one place, our platform, known for “discussing everyday issues from a biblical perspective,” could not…
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【Prayer Request for Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church】20230528
This morning (May 28) at around 9 AM, shortly after the Sunday worship service began, Dazhou City’s Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Civil Affairs, Public Security, and other departments conducted a “joint enforcement” operation. They raided the Dazhou Haotudi Preaching House of Autumn Rain Covenant Church and took 11 brothers and sisters, including Brother…
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Kingdom Prayer Information – Zhengzhou Zhongxing Christian Church 20230525
On the morning of May 21, 2023, around 5:30 AM, while about 20 members of our church were holding a Sunday service, more than 50 people from Zhengzhou’s Jinshui District Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Civil Affairs Bureau, Beilin Road Police Station, auxiliary police, urban management officers, and Beilin Road Sub-district Office forcibly entered…
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Kingdom Prayer Information Update – Bengbu Living Stone Reformed Church, Anhui
Pastor Wan Changchun of the Bengbu Living Stone Reformed Church in Anhui was criminally detained on April 11 on suspicion of “illegal business operations.” Subsequently, three fellow workers were also criminally detained. On May 19, the Public Security Bureau requested the arrest of Pastor Wan Changchun and the three workers on suspicion of “fraud.” Pray…
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Kingdom Prayer Information Update – Linfen Covenant Home Church 20230522
Recently, new information has come from Linfen Covenant Home Church in Shanxi Province. The case has now been returned by the Linfen City People’s Procuratorate to the Yaodu District Procuratorate for further review and prosecution. The physical and mental conditions of the three brothers are still acceptable. Brother Wang Qiang showed special concern for the…
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Witness in Persecution: Christians, Where Can You Hide? – May 17, 2023
Sister Chen Yan’s on-site report on the experiences of Pastor Wu Wuqing and the Long Island brothers and sisters on May 17, 2023. Every morning, when the Christians in Shuangliu District’s Blue Light Long Island International find their water, electricity, cars, doorbells, and locks working normally, they especially shout Hallelujah! Today was particularly tight and…
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Witness in Persecution: May You Be Set Free – May 11, 2023
Series on Faith Persecution: In addition to the three households that have already had their electricity cut off, today four more households had their electric wires completely severed, using the same methods! Location: Blu-ray Changdao International Community A brother put it well, saying that this country is like the Meituan algorithm, trapping every delivery rider…
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Early Rain Covenant Church Prayer Request Update” May 9, 2023
Brother Shen Bing and his wife have just been returned home by the Chengdu Dayi Police. They shared: “The police wanted to fully understand the situation of our church in Dayi. All responses were limited to verbal communication, and I insisted on not signing anything. Their trade-off was not to provide the summons and inspection…
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Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church Prayer Request” May 9, 2023
Brother Shen Bing and his wife, Sister Li Xiaofeng, leaders of the Dayi Cell Group of the Early Rain Covenant Church, encountered a search by several Chengdu Dayi police officers at their home at around eleven o’clock this morning. They were taken away by two cars separately, and the specific details are still being understood.…
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