Attacks on House Churches Intensify Across Communist China

According to Bitter Winter, a Seventh-day Adventist house church in Neijang city in the southwestern province of Sichuan was raided on October 19.

According to reports, more than 200 people, including communist government officials and police officers came to the church, and took pictures of each Adventist believer. They ordered that electric power supply be cut off from the church. Two church members were beaten by four police officers, and interrogated along with the pastor. They were released that same day.

A week later, the church was raided again. This time, more than 100 officials and police officers blocked entrance to the house church. They confiscated chairs, tables, audio equipment, and Bible. The Bibles were trashed, and the door welded shut.

According to a congregation member, several churchgoers received calls from officials, who threatened to withhold the salaries of their children and grandchildren or impede their futures if the believers did not give up their belief.

Pray for our brothers and sisters in China, and pray that we might have their same faith amidst harsh persecutions.

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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” (Romans 8:35).