In China, all faith-based groups including Christianity, in particular, are feeling the heat from the Communist party as it works to eliminate their publications and shut-down their efforts to share their faith. 

In Liaoning, a northeastern Chinese province, one location of Three-Self Church was found using South Korean versions of the Bible. According to the Communist Party of China (CCP), the Bibles were sexually explicit and illegal publications. The persecution is so strong that the church was fined the equivalent of $1842.66. 

Reports say that many Three-Self Churches' hymnbooks and gospel pamphlets were confiscated and burned in addition to the Bibles.  

The CCP is monitoring all faith-based organizations and materials in the country. Sarah Cook, a senior research analyst for Freedom House told the Harvard Politics Review, “while religion exists, the party seeks to harness its benefits but carefully control and limit it under rule by law and selective eradication. [In the long-term], the party wants to curb religious expansion and accelerate the extinction of religion.”

The government continues its persecution of the Church through the controlling and monitoring of the internet and all other public materials. In an open letter, the CCP spoke of religious policies stating that they will ban all "publications and information that weaken, distort, or negate the Party's Leadership or China's socialist system."