Source: China Digital Times Date: May 24, 2018 China Digital Times presents a compilation of reports from academics, human rights organizations, and the media on mass re-education camps for Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang and government’s campaign against religions in China. … [Read More...] about New Facts About Re-Education Camps for Muslims and Crackdown on Religions in China
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Petition to Free Falun Gong Prisoners
Source: ChinaAid Date: May 23, 2018 ChinaAid reports that lawyers of Falun Gong practitioner Sun Qian, a Canadian citizen jailed in China for her religious practices, issued a petition appealing to Canadian officials and citizens to pay closer attention to the crimes committed against this … [Read More...] about Petition to Free Falun Gong Prisoners
School in Gongyi, Henan Forbade a Student to Wear a Jacket with a Cross Pattern
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on April 20, 2018, the vice-principal of a school in the city of Gongyi in Henan Province ordered a student to change clothes because she wore a jacket with a cross pattern. … [Read More...] about School in Gongyi, Henan Forbade a Student to Wear a Jacket with a Cross Pattern
Elderly Christian Arrested for Religious Videos
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 Bitter Winter continuously receives direct reports from China about the government’s activities to crack down on various religions in the country. Quite often, the ways the authorities harass the believers is hard to comprehend and strange, to … [Read More...] about Elderly Christian Arrested for Religious Videos
Chinese Communist Party Bans Its Members From Professing Religious Beliefs
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) requires its members to be staunch atheists and forbids them from believing in any religion. In reality, some Party members are also Christians, and the Party severely tramples their religious freedom … [Read More...] about Chinese Communist Party Bans Its Members From Professing Religious Beliefs
Member of the Shouters Detained in Yantai, Shandong
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 21, 2018 Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest of a member of the Shouters – Christians in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that have been long targeted by the Chinese Government. After being on the list of wanted … [Read More...] about Member of the Shouters Detained in Yantai, Shandong
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Who Is Afraid of Bitter Winter?
Massimo Introvigne The launch of Bitter Winter has been greeted by a good media coverage, and has been covered with sympathy by several human rights and academic blogs and websites, from France to Australia. We did expect different reactions, too. One day after the launch,
Church of Almighty God: Persecution and Refugees in Numbers
By Lea Perekrests & Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers (Brussels) Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) has been working to investigate and track the stories of the Church of Almighty God (CAG) members over the past months. Closely following the cases of arrest, torture, and asylum processes, HRWF has been able to create a profile […]
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Bitter Winter Interviews – Professor D.H. Williams
Daniel H. Williams is professor of patristics and historical theology at the Department of Religion of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The author or editor of six books, he has also been active in teaching in China since 2006. He has lectured at five major universities in mainland China, served as a plenary speaker at […]
Bitter Winter Interviews – Father Bernardo Cervellera
Father Bernardo Cervellera is the editor of AsiaNews, the official press agency of the Roman Catholic Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME). A former professor of History of Western Civilization at Peking University (Beida), he is widely regarded as the leading Catholic expert on China.
Documents
United Nations, Human Rights Council: Written Statement of the NGO CAP-LC on The Church of Almighty God.
United Nations, Human Rights Council- Written Statement of the NGO CAP-LC on The Church of Almighty God