The Chinese Communist Party has once again demonstrated its intolerance for religious freedom, deploying SWAT teams to storm an underground Protestant church in the city of Jiangyou.
During a Sunday service, over 50 police officers surrounded the congregants, forcibly taking more than 30 members—including children and the elderly—to a detention center for interrogation. Two church leaders, Yan Hong and Wu Wuqing, remain detained following the raid.
This assault on the Early Rain Covenant Church is part of a broader, systemic campaign by the CCP to eliminate any religious expression that does not fall under the strict control of the state.
By forcing Christians to choose between state-sanctioned churches or the threat of imprisonment, Beijing continues to treat peaceful prayer as a direct threat to its authoritarian grip on power. This latest incident follows a long history of persecution against the church, including the ongoing nine-year sentence of founding pastor Wang Yi.
As the CCP tightens its iron fist, it remains clear that the regime views the fundamental right to worship as an obstacle to its total control over the Chinese people.
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