Two ministers in China’s unrecognized Protestant church have been sentenced to one year each in a labor camp on charges of using an “evil cult” to obstruct the law, an overseas monitoring group said Monday.

Pop culture offerings in China these days run the gamut from Hollywood blockbusters to domestic versions of “American Idol,” but it is a book about the ancient sage Confucius that is causing all the buzz in the streets.

Police in China detained four US church leaders and a group of Chinese Christians after they held a religious gathering in the remote northwest region of Xinjiang, a rights group said Wednesday.

Chinese political advisors have called on the nation’s legislature for drafting a systematic anti- cult law as early as possible to provide a solid legal foundation in the fight against cults.

Chinese by the tens of millions shed decades of state-imposed atheism. The phenomenon has gained momentum so fast that it appears to have taken the government by surprise.

Eight Chinese Christians are going on trial in the eastern city of Hangzhou charged with instigating violence and interfering with the law. China pays lip-service to religious freedom and persecutes Christians who do not wish to take part in the state-run church.

China has executed 15 members of an underground Protestant sect after a feud that resulted in the deaths of several members of a rival religious group.

The leader of a Chinese Christian sect and at least 11 of his subordinates have been executed for ordering the murder of members of a rival religious group, as authorities sought to suppress big underground churches that they deemed cults.

A Chinese court has secretly executed the leader of a fringe underground Christian sect and 11 followers convicted of murdering members of a rival group, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

A Chinese court has upheld the death sentences for three leaders of a religious cult convicted of murdering members of another cult.

A new breed of churches in this region of China has demonstrated a boldness and independence unmatched elsewhere in the country, despite strict government guidelines for places of worship.

A prominent Chinese minister of an unofficial Protestant church has been jailed for seven and a half years, a U.S.-based Christian group said Sunday, a hefty punishment indicating the continued government crackdown on unsanctioned religious activity.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China sentenced three members of a local Christian sect to death for the murder of followers of a rival group and ordered likely life sentences for three other members of the controversial underground religion.

China Aid Association Releases the Defense Lawyers' Statement for Religious Group Leader Xu Shuangfu

BEIJING, Feb. 27--(Kyodo)- Seventeen leaders from a Chinese Christian group will go on trial Tuesday for alleged involvement in the murder of 20 members of a rival sect and fraud, a Christian group based in the United States said Monday.

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