Nearly 20,000 people from the Church of Almighty God were arrested in 2024. Two deaths in four days in Jilin attracted international attention - Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Religious Freedom

On February 28, 2025, 21 religious human rights experts and scholars issued a joint letter1, calling on the international community to pay attention to the large-scale persecution of members of The Church of Almighty God. The joint letter pointed out that the Church of Almighty God, the most persecuted Christian new religious group in China, is suffering unprecedentedly brutal suppression by the Chinese Communist Party authorities. The nationwid…