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...
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...
Source: Asahi Shimbun and Direct Reports from China Date: May 27, 2018 Since the newly revised Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect in February 2018, Chinese authorities have strengthened their suppression of both Chinese and foreign religious groups. On...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 26, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on May 6, 2018, government officials in the county of Mianchi, Henan, broke into a Christian’s house and ravaged religious possessions. A little past 11:00 a.m, Fan Yuling...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 27, 2018 Recently, Bitter Winter has received many reports of discrimination against Christian students in public schools. On April 27, 2018, Wang Chenyang (pseudonym, male, 13 years old), a 5th grader in the city of...
Source: Direct information from Italy Date: May 26, 2018 On May 22, 2018, the Justice Court of Perugia, Italy, annulled a decision by an administrative commission, that had denied an asylum request by a female member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian...
Source: China Digital Times Date: May 24, 2018 China Digital Times presents a compilation of reports from academics, human rights organizations, and the media on mass re-education camps for Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang and government’s campaign against religions in...
Source: ChinaAid Date: May 23, 2018 ChinaAid reports that lawyers of Falun Gong practitioner Sun Qian, a Canadian citizen jailed in China for her religious practices, issued a petition appealing to Canadian officials and citizens to pay closer attention to the crimes...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 A source told Bitter Winter that, on April 20, 2018, the vice-principal of a school in the city of Gongyi in Henan Province ordered a student to change clothes because she wore a jacket with a cross pattern. It is...
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: May 23, 2018 Bitter Winter continuously receives direct reports from China about the government’s activities to crack down on various religions in the country. Quite often, the ways the authorities harass the believers is hard...