People in China are being arrested by state authorities for performing Christian burials.

Bitter Winter, a magazine focusing on China's religious restrictions, says authorities are attending funerals and arresting people performing Christian services.

Currently, the only services Christians in China can perform must be within the confines of a state-run church.

Provinces in China have banned religious funerals and only permit "civilized" funerals as of mid-December in a new policy.

Wenzhou's Regulations on Centralized Funeral Arrangement states that “visiting groups, choirs, orchestras, and other groups” may not hold any religious services outside of a state-regulated church.

Bitter Winter reports that authorities are carrying out these regulations.

“When my father died, village officials threatened to arrest us if we didn’t conduct a secular funeral. We did not dare to go against them,” a villager from Gucheng town in Henan’s county-level city of Yuzhou tells Bitter Winter. “My father had been a believer for several decades. He is persecuted even after death.”