Henan authorities are forcibly taking down religious symbols in individuals’ homes and forcing them to advertise CCP ideology.
No Christian Couplets for Spring Festival
Return Visit System: Closing Churches For Good
Monthly visits, detailed checklists, tracking of believers who fail to attend approved churches – a systematic plan to ensure closed down churches stay closed.
New Innovative Way to Crack Down on Churches
In an attempt to hide its persecution of the religious, Chinese authorities are now forcing Christians to “donate” their churches.
“Cleaning up Gang Crime” Means Crackdown on Faith
On orders from the top, local governments are investigating workers, threatening to cut pensions, and restricting social media. Examples from Inner Mongolia.
Testimonies
Buddhist Statues Disappearing Throughout China
Images and videos of Buddhist statues being destroyed or covered keep flooding in – seemingly with no end in sight.
CCP Goes After Church Venues in Disrepair
Perfectly functional, or barely functional, the Chinese government will go after any religious meeting site.
Believer Dies While Running From CCP
After five years of persecution, a member of The Church of Almighty God fell seriously ill but was unable to seek treatment while on the run.
Xinjiang Woman Struggles to Care for Her Grandchildren
It is not only the detainees who suffer. Aged parents and young children are left alone. This is the story of one grandmother struggling to protect her family.
Weekly Feature
Digital Maoism: The New Personality Cult of Xi Jinping
A new app for smartphones, whose use for CCP members is mandatory, takes the personality cult of President Xi Jinping to new, unprecedented heights.
Articles
British Muslims Rally to the Uyghur Cause
Muslims in London are supporting the Uyghur cause, spurred on to take up the challenge and stand against the atrocities being metered out by Beijing.
China and Venezuela: Business Partners Against Human Rights
In the name of national socialism, the despot Maduro has impoverished an entire people… with Xi Jinping’s money. It is the “Belt and Road Initiative,” stupid.
Interviews
Local Church, Shouters, Assembly: Who’s Who in the Watchman Nee Tradition
An interview with J. Gordon Melton, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary religion, who explains the differences between the different groups in the tradition of Chinese Protestant preacher Witness Lee.
“Dozens of my in-laws vanished.” The other 9/11 of Rushan Abbas
That very day her sister and aunt disappeared. It was six days after the renowned Uyghur activist denounced the disappearance of many others – some of them babies.
Documents
“Not in My Name”. Why Even Atheists Should Defend Believers
Mr. Willy Fautré, co-founder and director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, and Associate Editor of Bitter Winter, delivered the following text, illustrated with slides from pictures of persecution published by Bitter Winter, during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
A Tale of Two Rival Deities: God and the CCP
Mr. Marco Respinti, Director-in-Charge of Bitter Winter delivered a slightly shortened version of the following text during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China, organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
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