Authorities in Xinjiang have been handing out illegal sentences of over ten years to Chinese Muslims. The Chinese Communist Party-backed authorities have been detaining Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui Muslims under a suspected violation of Article 120 of Chinese Criminal...
Thе Luoning County Communist Party Committee at an emergency meeting gave orders to remove crosses forcibly, even from state-sanctioned churches. On August 7, 2018, the Luoning County Party Committee in Henan’s Luoyang city held an emergency meeting, which resulted in...
The church’s leader felt helpless as her church was illegally demolished and was refused justice by everyone. In December last year, the Luyi county government in Henan deployed more than 100 police officers for a church demolition. It was a government-approved...
The authorities hired thugs to vandalize and loot a religious gathering venue in Anhui. In July 2015, more than 200 members of a house church were gathered at the home of a believer, Zhou Sheng (pseudonym), in Anhui’s Tongcheng city to participate in a biannual Bible...
Most mosques in this Xinjiang city had been demolished already, but now the remaining ones are being shut down as well. The residents of China’s western region of Xinjiang where almost half of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, have been going through increasingly...
Authorities in Henan continue to close down the government-approved Protestant churches. Recently, four government departments in Henan’s Yongcheng city organized a meeting for the leaders of churches. Representatives from the local Public Security Bureau, the United...
In an incident from Anhui, the police disrupted a house church gathering by firing warning shots. In November 2014, a gathering was underway at a house church in Anhui’s Hefei city when police officials stormed inside. To intimidate those present, the police...
Bitter Winter received videos depicting the demolition of a Protestant church that belongs to official China’s Three-Self Patriotic Movement. On June 25, 2018, the Henan provincial government ordered the demolition of a government-controlled Three-Self church in the...
Local authorities in Anhui’s Dangshan county stop the protests against the demolition of a 100-year -old church by promising the congregation to build a new place of worship and compensate them financially. The promise has never been kept.
A member of the Shouters’ movement from Henan Province who had been in exile for more than 20 years was captured by the Chinese authorities and later received a lengthy prison sentence. He Jie (pseudonym) from Yongcheng city, Henan Province, had been on the run after...