Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

NEWS FROM CHINA

Police Investigates the Aggressors of Amsterdam’s Lonely Uyghur
What happened in February in The Hague is evidence of China’s transnational repression and should not be condoned.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD

Pakistan Christians Call for Justice for Catholic Laborer Found Hanged
Marqas Masih’s death in Sargodha was declared a suicide, but it increasingly appears to be a homicide.
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TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
Jinan, 90-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Sentenced to Jail
Because of his health problems, the prison declined to admit him. He is now under house arrest.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
Pakistan: Court Challenges the Bias That Confines Minorities to Sanitation Work
The Islamabad High Court has condemned religion-based sanitation job ads, but the practice continues despite constitutional protections.
FEATURED CHINA
Kang Youwei: A Confucian Monarchist in the New World
A monumental book focuses on the American years and mystical utopianism of a reformer who has been curiously rediscovered in Xi Jinping’s China
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
The Fear of the Jesuits in 17th-century Poland and Lithuania: The First “Cult” Panic
An exploration of anti-Jesuit polemics reveals a much older genealogy behind today’s campaigns against groups branded as outsiders, manipulators, or “cults.”
OP-EDS CHINA
Breaking Lineage, Breaking Roots:China’s New Law on Ethnic Unity
The newly approved statute institutionalizes the CCP’s harsh attitude toward minorities and their languages and cultures.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
Between Law and Reality: Media and Religious Discrimination
When religious freedom faces a new threat in media reports that obscure and distort reality
INTERVIEWS

The Vissarion Template: An Interview with Katya Palkina
After the harsh Russian sentence against the Church of the Last Testament’s leader, a member speaks out.
DOCUMENT AND TRANSLATIONS

日本:数万人の統一教会信者、礼拝の場を奪われる
教会の解散は、単に税制の優遇措置を失うだけだと主張する者もいたが、清算人はすでに260の礼拝施設を閉鎖している。






