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The article focuses on a mandate requiring prospective Communist Party members to renounce religious belief in the Zhejiang province of China. Topics covered include the harassment of Protestant churches in the province, the reference to the capital of Wenzhoue as China's Jerusalem for its high number of Protestants and the ban on Christmas celebrations as an attempt to single out Christians. Also mentioned is the response by professor Li Yunlong to the move.

The article reports that Chinese Protestant pastors Gu Yuese (Joseph Gu) and Li Guanzhong were arrested due to their opposition to a government effort to take down church crosses in Zhejiang Province around Hangzhou, China. Topics include opposition to the anti-cross effort within the government-approved Three-Self Protestant churches, the disappearance of lawyer Zhang Kai after he took religious freedom cases, and the implications of the arrests for civil society in China.

The article reports that some Protestant church in Zhejiang Province, China are replacing crosses that local authorities have knocked off church buildings as a form of civil disobedience. Topics include a media and political campaign against Christian churches in Wenzhou, China, the restriction of government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches in Zhejiang, and the role of evangelical Christianity in China.