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
China: Children Barred from Church Doors. A Mother Speaks Up
Regulations prohibiting minors from entering churches are now strictly enforced.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
The OLIRE Annual Report on Religious Liberty in Latin America: A Useful Document, but Something is Missing
The comprehensive assessment of how freedom of religion is threatened in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and by organized crime, omits the stigmatization of “cults” in democratic countries.
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
Twisted TV: How a Documentary Bent the Facts Out of Shape. 1. MISA in Romania
An Apple TV series against Gregorian Bivolaru and his movement even rehabilitates the notorious Securitate police of Ceaușescu.
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

France : l’association anti-sectes UNADFI perd de nouveau en justice
La Cour d’appel d’Aix-en-Provence a déclaré que son refus de publier un droit de réponse de « Non à la Drogue, Oui à la Vie » était illégal.






