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...
A leader of The Church of Almighty God is threatened with deportation to China, where she will be at risk of being executed. This may be the most important article published by Bitter Winter to date. It is, literally, a question of life and death. It regards an asylum...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 3, 2018 Henan’s Gongyi city government prepared special measures to prevent foreign journalists from getting information on religious beliefs in the province, discloses an official internal document. A Special Operation...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 Chinese Communist authorities have created an immense network of “re-education” camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang since the beginning of its massive “sinicization of religion” campaign. Presented as the...
Source: Direct reports from Italy Date: June 28, 2018 On June 27, the Justice Court of Perugia in Italy published two orders, no. 462/2018 and no. 459/2018, granting refugee status to two female members of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious...
Source: Direct reports from NGOs Date: June 21, 2018 On June 20, 2018, during the yearly conference of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, which is taking place in Nantou, Taiwan, Professor Massimo Introvigne, editor-in-chief of Bitter Winter reviewed the...