Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 13, 2018 Since April this year, Korean missionaries in various parts of China have experienced increased scrutiny and harassment resulting in the closure of Koreans Christian churches. The crackdown intensified after the...
Bitter Winter
Police Raided a Catholic Church in Jilin Province And Arrested Nine Nuns
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 13, 2018 On May 11, the Communist Party police raided a Catholic church in Helong town, Nong’an County, Changchun city, Jilin Province, and arrested nine nuns. Since the raid, the church, which is part of the so-called...
Communist Party Re-Educates Believers Through Surveillance and Intimidation
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, is now regarded by the Chinese Communist Party as its number one enemy. It is listed as a xie jiao (“heterodox teaching,”) which means that...
Police Stormed House Church and Detained 18 Christians in Yichun, Jiangxi
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Bitter Winter has just received a believable report that, on October 29, 2017, at about 3:40 p.m., more than a dozen policemen broke into a house church in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, where Christians...
Eleven Members of The Church of Almighty God Arrested
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 Around 5:00 p.m. on May 19, Xia Wei (pseudonym, female, 21), a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the Chinese government in Chongqing along with ten...
Catholic Church Demolished in Gongyi, Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 12, 2018 On April 17, authorities demolished a Catholic church in the city of Gongyi, Henan Province, claiming that it was built unlawfully. According to the priest at the church, Father Yang (pseudonym, 54 years old), the...
Remembering the Emmanuel Church in Liaoyang
Article based on direct reports from China, June 11, 2018 The number of people of faith who suffer from government persecutions in China is growing at an alarming speed. Facing the brutality and injustice from authorities, believers are left aggrieved, indignant and...
Protestant Church Demolished in Xinxiang, Henan
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 11, 2018 On the morning of April 16, the Changcun town government in Changyuan County, in Henan Province’s Xinxiang city demolished a Protestant church in Beixinxing village claiming that the church building was illegal. A...
Authorities Demolish Catholic Way of the Cross in Henan
Source: UCANews Date: June 11, 2018 A Roman Catholic Way of the Cross in China's Henan Province was forcibly demolished by authorities in the evening of June 5. Officials removed images of Jesus at the well-known Our Lady of Mount Carmel pilgrimage site in Tianjiajing...
Elimination of Religion Through Party Allegiance Ceremonies
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 Since April 2017, the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting ceremonies of allegiance to the Party in government institutions, enterprises, as well as colleges and universities. Party and league members are...
