Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
LATEST ARTICLES
NEWS FROM CHINA
Stop Uyghur Forced Labor: An Event in the UK Parliament
Activists and campaigners pool resources to see the scourge of Uyghur forced labor eradicated in Xinjiang.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD
A 95-Year-Old Religious Leader in Custody: South Korea Crosses a Line
An elderly man who devoted his life to faith is now treated as a public menace.
TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
China’s Regime-Controlled Three-Self Church: What Kind of Pastors?
A Chinese Christian reflects on clergy forced to choose between faith and state policy. Some betray the Scripture, others try to create a narrow space for survival.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
How a Narrative Was Built: Fact-Checker Kato Reads the Unification Church Case in Japan
A leading journalist documented, with statistical data, how activists and media fabricated a climate leading to the dissolution of the religious organization.
FEATURED CHINA
Uyghurs Students as Dissidents: 40 Years of History
How Uyghur students helped shape China’s 1980s reform era, and a democratic awakening became recast as a security threat.
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
The New Testament Church and the Tai Ji Men Case: The Mount Zion Saga in Comparative Perspective
The repression of the Christian millenarian movement during the Martial Law period in Taiwan has similarities with the post-authoritarian assault on Tai Ji Men.
OP-EDS CHINA
Pastor Jin Mingri’s July 4 Release: What Does It Mean?
Xi Jinping’s “gift” to Donald Trump analyzed by a Chinese Christian. We are grateful for Pastor Jin, but we cannot forget that many other Christians are still in prison.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
Shincheonji and the Unification Church: South Korea’s Minister of Justice Promises “Strict Punishment” of “False Prophets”
Elderly religious leaders are kept in detention, while the politician quotes the Gospel against the “heretics” and hails what happened in Japan.
INTERVIEWS
A Case Built on Sand? Konstantin Rudnev Speaks Out After House Arrest Is Revoked
The prosecutors’ accusations against Rudnev deserves to be examined in detail—and he should be allowed to present his version to the public.
DOCUMENT AND TRANSLATIONS
新天地と統一教会：韓国法務部長官、「にせ預言者」は「厳正に処罰すべき」と表明
高齢の宗教指導者たちが拘束されるなか、法務部長官は「異端者」を糾弾するために聖書を引用し、日本で起きた出来事を称賛した。