Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim | North Korea On January 31, 2015, Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim (63) travelled from China to North Korea on a humanitarian aid visit, but disappeared during this time. Later it was revealed that he had been detained in February 2015. North Korea released...
Cheng Hongpeng | China Chinese Christian Cheng Hongpeng was sentenced to three years in prison after Chinese officials raided a choir practice on 25 June 2014. As the believers practiced hymns at a factory owned by a church member, about 50 uniformed and plainclothes...
Pastor Zhang Shaojie | China Pastor Zhang Shaojie of Nanle County Christian Church in Henan Province, is currently serving a 12-year prison term for “gathering a crowd to disrupt the public order” and a fabricated fraud charge. Pastor Zhang was initially detained on...
Lacheng Ren | China Lacheng Ren, a Christian sponsoring a new Christian bookstore in Taiyuan, and Wenxi Li, a Christian bookstore employee, were arrested and sentenced to prison terms for their role in the Enyu Bookstore in Taiyuan. Police raided the business and...
Alimujiang Yimiti | China Please read our writing guidelines before writing to prisoners In January 2008, Alimujiang “Alim” Yimiti, a Muslim convert to Christianity, was arrested and accused of “subversion of the national government and endangering national security,”...
Pastor Gong Shengliang | China Founder and Pastor of the “Huanan Church” (South China Church, SCC), Gong Shengliang was arrested along with sixteen other South China Church leaders in April of 2001. In December 2001 his original death sentence was reduced to life in...
Yang Hua | China Yang Hua’s wife, Wang Hongwu, came to pick him up on 20 December 2015, from the detention center in China where he had been held since 9 December for his involvement with Living Stone Church, also known as Huoshi Church. But instead of signing...
