BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

Former Ragya Abbot Sentenced to Five Years

Lobsang Tenpa had already spent months in custody in 2025. He was accused of encouraging devotees to pray for the Dalai Lama.

“Dangerous Justice”: A New Book on the Rudnev Case and Argentina’s Criminal System

Scholars, lawyers, a journalist, and the alleged “victim” examine how prejudice and structural flaws kept a seriously ill man in jail.

The Triple Alliance: The Chinese Communist Party, Japanese Anti-cult Lawyers, and Korean Heresy Hunters

Korean pastors, Japanese leftist attorneys, and Beijing’s Communist bureaucrats have formed a united front against conservative religion; so far, it has been effective.

Repression Without Borders: China Detains Taiwanese Yiguandao Followers

A rising tally of detentions exposes escalating risks for cross‑strait believers.

Konstantin Rudnev, the Altai Kam, and Don Juan

The Russian spiritual teacher compared Siberian shamanism with the Toltec path described by Carlos Castaneda.

Yunnan: 100,000 Farmers Guard Their Dead Against Forced Cremation

For two weeks in September, crowds in Zhenxiong County protected funerals and graves, defending ancestral rites the CCP has tried to erase since the 1950s.

CESNUR 2026 Examines the Unification Church Case in Japan

Speakers from Tokyo and Kanazawa told how pastors, parents, and leftist lawyers joined forces, and what believers now face after the dissolution order.

A Moral Signal in The Hague Against China’s Transnational Repression

The mayor’s reception of the “lonely Uyghur” exposes the political meaning of Chinese violence inside a city of international justice.

Reading Konstantin Rudnev’s “Siberian Shamanism”

Written early in his career for committed students, the book builds an internally consistent cosmology of four gods and five souls.

“Bitter Winter” Hero of the Week: Palau’s President Sends China Packing

The leader of an island nation of 18,000 people answered Chinese threats over Taiwan with a courage many larger governments seem to have misplaced.

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