Yang Rongli

On June 20, 2025, Yang Rongli, pastor and co-founder of Golden Lampstand Church, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison on charges of ‘fraud’.

 

Yang Rongli, along with her husband Wang Xiaoguang, were detained on August 7, 2021 during a government campaign which targeted their church for refusing to join the government-controlled Three Self Church. She is currently being held at Yaodu District Detention Center.

 

She has written a letter to her son from prison expressing the peace she felt on hearing the verdict against her, as well as the sorrow of being seperated from her family. She has appealed her sentence, but tells her son that she is not placing her hope in the appeal but in “God’s greater work”.

 

According to China Aid, Yang Rongli, who is now in her late 60s, suffers from diabetes and has received no medical care for this.