Tag: religious restrictions

Chinese Catholics have a special devotion to Our Lady, Help of Christians, who is venerated under that title at a Marian shrine in Shanghai

Air Force personnel reportedly cordoned off the main door of the church and blocked entry to churchgoers

At least four of those who went missing disappeared on the 29th and 30th of April

Shanghai’s Xinguang Presbyterian Church was already listed as an illegal social organization by the government in July 2021

The archbishop challenged the public to provide “even a single instance of conversion” in hundreds of Christian schools

The new rules will place the supervision of the finances of religious sites into the hands of the government

The local faithful are worried because they do not know the whereabouts of the bishop because the police even took his phone

Civil society and human rights groups said the existence of the blasphemy article is “very worrying” in Indonesia

The report said that all religions, including the state-controlled ones, have suffered from "aggressive repression on religious freedom"

For years, officials in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have prohibited Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims from fully observing Ramadan