4/3/2025 China – Pastor Wan Changchun of Living Stone Reformed House Church in Bengbu, Anhui, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Pastor Wan was arrested in early April 2023, as reported by Bitter Winter. He was charged and sentenced for alleged fraud connected to the operation of their house church.
Chinese communist officials and police often use fraud allegations and charges to accuse, harass, arrest, and ultimately imprison Christians- especially pastors and Christian leaders to attempt to shut down their unregistered house churches.
The Chinese government, led and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has long considered religion an existential threat to the state’s authority. It heavily persecutes churches and pockets of religion that dare to exist outside the narrow confines of state-controlled churches that serve as mouthpieces for government propaganda.
Please pray for Pastor Wan and his family during this difficult time.
