At the beginning of the 17th century, one of the most important controversies in the history of Chinese Christianity developed in the Catholic Church, one whose consequences are still felt today. Jesuit missionaries proposed a new style of evangelization in China....
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Three-Self Gospel Church Was Demolished in Fujian
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received reports and photographic evidence from Fujian Province about an incident that happened in 2016, which proves that not even the communities belonging to the Three-Self Church,...
Member of The Church of Almighty God Tortured in Jiangsu
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 In the afternoon of April 15, 2018, four members of The Church of Almighty God, a Christian new religious movement founded in China in 1991, in the city of Xinyi, Jiangsu Province, were having a meeting in the...
Communist Party Monitors and Persecutes Shouters’ Church in Jiangsu Province
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 16, 2018 Bitter Winter has received reports of continuous harassment of communities of the Shouters, Christians, in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, that the Chinese Government has been...
Arbitrary Detention of Members of The Church of Almighty God Denounced at the United Nations
Source: United Nations Website Date: June 14, 2018 At the Thirty-eight Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, which starts in Geneva on June 18, the NGO CAP-LC, which enjoys consultative ECOSOC status at the UN, filed a document denouncing the...
United Nations, Human Rights Council, 38th Session- Written Statement of the NGO CAP-LC on The Church of Almighty God
United Nations, Human Rights Council, 38th Session- Written Statement of the NGO CAP-LC on The Church of Almighty God
China’s Got Talent? CCP Shopping for Pro-Regime Religious Personnel
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 5, 2018 Bitter Winter has received a copy of a confidential circular letter titled “Suggestions on Strengthening and Improving Islamic Work Under the New Circumstances,” issued on April 19, 2018, by the General Office of...
China’s “Official” Religions Support the New Constitution
Source: Islamic Association of China Date: June 4, 2018 The website of the Islamic Association of China reported about the 5th Joint Meeting of the National Religious Groups, held in Beijing on May 31. The theme of the meeting was, “studying the Amendments to the...
Anti-Cultists Criticize the Efficacious Spirit Movement
Source: ChinaSource and information from CESNUR Date: May 29, 2018 ChinaSource, quoting Christian anti-cult ministries, report that a Chinese new religious movement called Ling Ling, better known to scholars as the Efficacious Spirit Teachings movement, worries the...
The Rise and Fall of Ark School
Article based on direct reports from China, May 28, 2018 Ark School in Xiaohe, a town situated in Xun County, near the city of Hebi, Henan, was founded by a local Christian, Ms. Liu in 2015. The government refused to issue the documents it needed because of its...


