BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

Police Use Tactics of Deceit to Arrest Believers

Police Use Tactics of Deceit to Arrest Believers

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 A couple from the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, members of The Church of Almighty God- a Christian new religious movement, has been listed as wanted persons by the Chinese Communist Party police because of...

House Church Leader Forced to Flee Fearing Arrest

House Church Leader Forced to Flee Fearing Arrest

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 21, 2018 Surveilled and chased after by the Communist Party authorities for her religious beliefs, 49-year-old house church leader from Huancui District in the city of Weihai, Shandong Province was forced to flee her home...

Chinese Government Demolishes Mosques in Xinjiang

Chinese Government Demolishes Mosques in Xinjiang

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 19, 2018 Muslims in China have suffered devastating blows since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified its onslaught on religious liberties: believers are incarcerated and mosques destroyed. Bitter Winter has...

Catholic Priest Persecuted for Over 60 Years

Catholic Priest Persecuted for Over 60 Years

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 20, 2018 Han Jingtao is currently 97-years-old. He is a priest of a so-called “underground” Catholic church from Bairin Right Banner in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. As a priest of the church whose bishops are appointed by...

Bitter Winter

Bitter Winter reports on how religions are allowed, or not allowed, to operate in China and how some are severely persecuted after they are labeled as “xie jiao,” or heterodox teachings. We publish news difficult to find elsewhere, analyses, and debates. Placed under the editorship of Massimo Introvigne, one of the most well-known scholars of religion internationally, “Bitter Winter” is a cooperative enterprise by scholars, human rights activists, and members of religious organizations persecuted in China (some of them have elected, for obvious reasons, to remain anonymous).