Yaxue Cao, May 5, 2026 (Continued from Part One) Clandestine Bible training Faith was for Yang Hua a habit before it was a conviction. Like other Christian families with small children, he was carried to Sunday worship in a basket on his parents’ backs when he was little; when he was old enough, he walked on foot. He learned hymns by rote. Every [...] Keep reading »

Yaxue Cao, April 26, 2026 Introduction If we are to take stock of the Christian experience in China, the story of Pastor Yang Hua (仰华) may provide a good example. A third-generation Christian, the history of his family’s faith spans ninety years and can be traced back to the work of the China Inland Mission started by Hudson Taylor, one of th [...] Keep reading »

China Change, March 24, 2026 Last October, following the detention of 18 pastors and church workers of Zion Church, including its lead Pastor Jin Mingri (金明日), as many as forty lawyers joined the defense team as the case progressed. The Zion Church members were charged with “the crime of illegally utilizing information networks” and detai [...] Keep reading »

Yaxue Cao, November 4, 2025 (Continued from Part One) The Birth of Zion Church: In the Open, Not Underground In early 2007, Pastor Jin Mingri, together with his wife and three children, returned to Beijing. By then, China had already undergone over a decade of rapid economic development. From the street level to its skyline, Beijing — rebuilt by [...] Keep reading »

Yaxue Cao, October 30, 2025 Zion Church Under Attack On the evening of Saturday, October 10, in Beihai, Guangxi (广西北海), more than twenty police officers stormed into the home of Pastor Jin Mingri (金明日, Ezra Jin), the head pastor of Zion Church (锡安教会), just after he and his elderly mother-in-law had finished dinner. One officer [...] Keep reading »

Liao Yiwu, translated by Michael Martin Day, March 4, 2019 On December 9th, 2018, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, in my hometown of Chengdu, Sichuan, the most influential house church in China today, the Early Rain Covenant Church, was raided by the police and banned, and more than 100 believers were taken away. The chapel, semin [...] Keep reading »

Pastor Wang Yi, December 24, 2018     In line with the teachings of the Bible and the mission of the gospel, I respect the leaders that God placed in power over China, because the coming and going of kings and leaders is all His hands. In this vein, I shall obey the arrangements God has made for Chinese history and its government. As a pa [...] Keep reading »

China Change, December 21, 2018     On Sunday evening, December 9, while worshiping with members, Wang Yi (王怡), the lead pastor of Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church was seized and taken away by police. The church was raided; books and other items were confiscated. In the same evening, police descended on homes of many members, demand [...] Keep reading »

September 25, 2018     China Change, partnered with Humanitarian China, has compiled this 19-minute video presentation about the Chinese regime’s ongoing repression of churches, particularly in central China’s Henan Province (河南). Much of the footage is collected from social media, and we conducted a number of interviews with past [...] Keep reading »