Bitter Winter has uncovered information that the preparations for the massive arrests of believers in Almighty God in Liaoning, on June 26-28, had been taking place since early spring. A large-scale “Operation Thunder” in Liaoning Province resulted in the arrest of...
In a high-profile trial, a Chinese Muslim woman, who is an ethnic Kazakh and escaped to Kazakhstan with false documents, is threatened with repatriation to China.
Even government-controlled Three-Self churches are not safe from the demolition campaign: the Baofeng church in Jiangxi was falsely declared unsafe and demolished. Since President Xi Jinping took office, many churches have been demolished, or their crosses have been...
Bitter Winter has received a secret Communist Party document with a plan to close down churches and religious meeting places in Liaoning Province. Since February 2018, following the implementation of the new national Regulations on Religious Affairs, authorities in...
When farmers from the Dai minority protested against the exploitation by a rubber company, the police sided with the company, killed two villagers and seriously wounded another ten. The Menglian incident of July 19, 2008, was followed with considerable emotion in...
Since spring 2017, Chinese authorities have increased their suppression efforts against Islam, demolishing innumerable mosques and sending Muslims to re-education camps. Recently, a Bitter Winter reporter visited the sites of six demolished mosques in the city of...
On June 1, 2018, the police raided a meeting place of The Church of Almighty God in the Yongchuan district of the city of Chongqing, arresting four believers. Three elderly members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, Tang Yong...
Over the past few months, government-controlled Protestant Three-Self churches in various locations in Henan Province have either been shut down or forced to take down their crosses. After the crosses of the Central Church in the town of Wolong and Bo’ai Church in the...
The London attorney, and president of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, has filed a high-profile complaint against China at the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Alessandro Amicarelli, a member of the firm Obaseki Solicitors...
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...