At a side event during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, doctors report about organs being removed from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and other prisoners of conscience in China, and used for transplant. In 2006, reports that corneas were being removed from Falun...
Authorities have been persecuting the school for over two decades, forcing its constant relocation. Various Christian movements and religious groups in China have opened up private schools where classes on religions are taught alongside the regular curriculum. Due to...
Court of Appeal in Lincang, Yunnan, confirms heavy prison sentences for Christians accused of being members of a banned movement they insist they never heard of. On May 3, 2018, Bitter Winter reported that house church Christians in Yunnan were being arrested and...
Only four Muslim adults remain in 30 households on one of the alleys in a Xinjiang village; the rest are detained in camps. Since this spring, at least 60 individuals from a village in Manas County of the Changji prefecture in Xinjiang have been apprehended by...
Local authorities decided to stop the building of a church after they sold the land to the congregation and issued all necessary permits. The construction of a church building that belongs to China’s state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement was...
An imam from Henan Province was lured to come to a police station and has been detained for over eight months. Wang Haoyi (pseudonym), an imam from Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo city in Henan Province was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government for explaining...
On July 25, 2014, over 10,000 people took part in the demolition of the cross from the Wenling Church in Zhejiang Province. A distinctive clock tower stands on the Chengguan Church in Wenling, Taizhou city, Zhejiang, on which once towered a bright red cross. Today,...
Ambassador Brownback and witnesses denounce Chinese repression of religious liberty at the Washington D.C. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. At the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of foreign ministers of 80 countries organized by the U.S....
The first side event of a week centered on the meeting of 80 foreign ministers in Washington D.C. was hosted by Bitter Winter and devoted to the persecution of Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and The Church of Almighty God in China. 80 foreign ministers arrived in Washington DC...
China is hoping to be part of the next soccer World Cup in 2022. But few remember soccer started in China within Christian churches. Chinese of all ages watched the 2018 soccer World Cup, concluded in Russia on Sunday, July 15. The Chinese government invests...