{"id":30345,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/living-stone-church-case-2962\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:42:51","slug":"living-stone-church-case-2962","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/living-stone-church-case-2962\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Stone Church Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/25e2563b261049d17e0607f0fde94339.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Living Stone Church (Huoshi Church\/\u6d3b\u77f3\u6559\u4f1a) is an unregistered Protestant church founded in 2009 in Guiyang city, Guizhou Province. At the start there were approximately 20 members, mostly people who had migrated to the city from rural areas. They gathered in a single apartment to worship. By 2013, the church had grown to become the largest unregistered church \u2013 or \u2018house church\u2019 \u2013 in the area, with around 400 members. To accommodate its expanding membership, in 2013 the church bought a 648m2 space in the downtown Guiyang Huaguoyuan International Center (\u8d35\u9633\u82b1\u679c\u56ed\u56fd\u9645\u4e2d\u5fc3) for its activities and worship services. The church\u2019s rapid growth \u2013 it now has over 700 members \u2013 has drawn the attention of the authorities, and in recent years the authorities have monitored and interfered in church activities. Since mid 2015 the church has experienced increasingly repressive measures by the authorities, including the Religious Affairs Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau and police. In December 2015 a number of church leaders and parishioners were detained, and on 22 January 2016 Pastor Yang Hua (Li Guozi) was arrested on suspicion of \u2018divulging state secrets\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2016-01-china.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Download the full report<\/strong><\/a> 538 KB<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Living Stone Church (Huoshi Church\/) is an unregistered Protestant church founded in 2009 in Guiyang city, Guizhou Province.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16848,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[131,128],"class_list":["post-30345","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-china","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36612,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30345\/revisions\/36612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}