Since April 2018, the Chinese authorities have been implementing “Operation Thunder,” a national campaign against The Church of Almighty God. In Jiangsu Province alone, at least 350 Church members have been arrested to date. … [Read More...] about The Hunt for Almighty God Believers in Jiangsu Continues
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New Organized Operation Against Believers in Almighty God
The Chinese authorities deployed a satellite positioning system during the new crackdown attack on The Church of Almighty God. … [Read More...] about New Organized Operation Against Believers in Almighty God
The Motion for Stay of Removal to China of Sister Zou Demei Has Been Granted
The Board of Immigration Appeals granted on August 13 a stay of removal to the leader of The Church of Almighty God in four Chinese provinces, who was to be deported to China after August 15. … [Read More...] about The Motion for Stay of Removal to China of Sister Zou Demei Has Been Granted
Government Treats “Generalization of Halal” as Extremism
In acts that remind of the Cultural Revolution era style policing, the Chinese Communist authorities have intensified their attack on Islam. … [Read More...] about Government Treats “Generalization of Halal” as Extremism
Testimonies
Three-Self Church Suffers Repeated Persecution
A state-sanctioned Protestant church in Zhejiang Province has been harassed on many occasions, once the authorities sent 500 people to demolish its cross.
Denied Political Career Because of Wife’s Belief
A husband of a member of The Church of Almighty God was told to divorce his wife if he wanted a Communist Party position in […]
Rampant Arrests of Muslims Continue in Xinjiang
The local authorities lock up people in “education” camps even for speaking the Uyghur language.
Three-Self Churches in Jilin Sealed, Crosses Taken Down
Churches in Jilin’s Yushu city have been targeted increasingly by the Chinese authorities since the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs.
Weekly Feature
If Your Religion is a Xie Jiao, You Go to Jail – But What Is A Xie Jiao?
Since the late Ming era, China has used xie jiao to designate religious movements the government does not like. Their repression has always been brutal, […]
Articles
Filming the Age of Kingdom: The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God
Despite severe persecution, the CAG grew in China and, according to Chinese official sources, had reached four million members in 2014. Several thousand members have escaped abroad, where they have founded churches.
The Denial of Religious Freedom in China Is A Challenge to the Whole World
The idea of human rights is founded on the principle of natural rights. But official Chinese human rights principles state that human rights are rights given by society to the individual.
Interviews
New Age Is Tolerated in China —As Long as It Does Not Challenge the Status Quo
Australian scholar Paul Farrelly, the leading expert on New Age in China, tells Bitter Winter how New Age literature and teachings came from the West to Taiwan, and from there to Mainland China. Unless it challenges the status quo, New Age appears to enjoy a surprising toleration in China.
Arbitrary Detention: The Attorney Who Challenged China
The London attorney, and president of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, has filed a high-profile complaint against China at the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Alessandro Amicarelli, a member of the firm Obaseki Solicitors in London, is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and a […]
Documents
An Urgent Appeal to Chancellor Angela Merkel
Dear Chancellor Merkel: We are NGOs active in the field of religious liberty, and write about the urgent situation of a Chinese refugee, Ms. Zhao, currently detained at the Aufsichts und Dienstleistungsdirektion Landeseinrichtung für Asylbegehrende und Ausreisepflichtige in Ingelheim, after she resisted forcible deportation to China on July 9. We urge you to consider that, should Ms. […]
An Open Letter to President Trump to Save Demei Zou
Nine non-governmental organizations appeal to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, an asylum seeker of a Chinese Christian new religious movement, The Church of Almighty God, who is detained in Detroit, Michigan and faces deportation to China.