A Bitter Winter reporter went to Shawan county to learn how government suppression affects daily lives: mass arrests, burned books, and destroyed mosques.
County in Xinjiang: A Case Study in Destroying Faith
150 Pastors Arrested at Year-End Gathering
Police monitored China Gospel Fellowship and swooped in when all pastors were in one place. One had a heart attack, and all were threatened to sign “repentance.”
Christian Calendars and Couplets Prohibited in Henan
Government officials are ringing in the Spring Festival – Chinese New Year – by clamping down on Christian literature.
Comprehensive Crackdowns for “Social Stability”
Fear of mass protests in China is leading to total surveillance, ideological control, and suppression of dissidents and human rights groups.
Testimonies
Xinjiang Woman Struggles to Care for Her Grandchildren
It is not only the detainees who suffer. Aged parents and young children are left alone. This is the story of one grandmother struggling to protect her family.
Christian Gives Testimony of Life in Camps
Not only Muslims are imprisoned at “transformation through education” camps. One Christian tells of her confinement, indoctrination, and continuing threats.
Campaign to Shut Down Temples Leaves Buddhists Homeless
As Chinese officials go on a demolition campaign, many Buddhists driven out of temples have been left destitute and impoverished.
Under CCP Persecution, Chinese Citizen Escapes Death
Sun Juchang and his wife, Jiang Shuhong, together have spent a cumulative 1,382 days in captivity for fighting for personal freedoms.
Weekly Feature
From Beijing 2008 to Beijing 2022: Should We Boycott China’s Winter Olympics?
Senator Marco Rubio, co-chair of the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China, is pressuring the International Olympic Committee asking that the city of Beijing be deprived of the hosting rights for the 2022 Winter Olympics games. Rubio argues that the gross violations of human rights in China, particularly in the field of religious liberty, are incompatible with the Olympic spirit.
Articles
A Young Uyghur Woman’s Plea for Her Mother’s Release
Beijing’s war on terror is reining in Christians, adding to fears that its mission is not only to stamp out Islam, but also to strike hard at the Uyghur nation itself.
The Price of My Belief: Locked Up for Three Years
A journalist who was arrested and tortured for being a member of The Church of Almighty God tells his story as a prisoner of faith in China.
Interviews
Local Church, Shouters, Assembly: Who’s Who in the Watchman Nee Tradition
An interview with J. Gordon Melton, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary religion, who explains the differences between the different groups in the tradition of Chinese Protestant preacher Witness Lee.
“Dozens of my in-laws vanished.” The other 9/11 of Rushan Abbas
That very day her sister and aunt disappeared. It was six days after the renowned Uyghur activist denounced the disappearance of many others – some of them babies.
Documents
“Not in My Name”. Why Even Atheists Should Defend Believers
Mr. Willy Fautré, co-founder and director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, and Associate Editor of Bitter Winter, delivered the following text, illustrated with slides from pictures of persecution published by Bitter Winter, during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
A Tale of Two Rival Deities: God and the CCP
Mr. Marco Respinti, Director-in-Charge of Bitter Winter delivered a slightly shortened version of the following text during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China, organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
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