BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

Twenty-Five Shouters Arrested in Xinjiang

Twenty-Five Shouters Arrested in Xinjiang

Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 23, 2018 Twenty-five members of the Shouters church in Xinjiang’s Kuitun city were arrested on March 14, 2017, when six officers from the local Public Security Bureau and police station broke down the door and charged into...

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).