The authorities arrested a Christian couple in 2005 and continue to monitor them despite their long sentence. In December 2005, Zhang Rendao (pseudonym) and his family were traveling from Kunshan city to northern Jiangsu. While passing through the Jiangyin Yangtze...
In two incidents from Henan province, authorities deployed a total of 70 officers to remove religious signage from government-approved churches. On July 11, six local government officials in Henan’s Zhumadian city carried out an overnight raid at a True Jesus Church...
The authorities tore down a state-controlled church in Chenji town two years ago and have not permitted its reconstruction so far. In May 2016, a church that belongs to the government-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement was under construction in Henan’s Chenji...
The leader of a Chinese religious movement was detained and later imprisoned. The Local Church, also known in China as the “Shouters, which the Chinese authorities listed as xie jiao in 1995. This non-denominational movement was started in 1927 by Ni Tuosheng or...
Authorities have kept a close watch on an elderly Christian and harassed him one way or other all his life. On July 27, three officers from the Yongcheng city police station barged into the home of 70-year-old Dong Li (pseudonym). He was not at home, so the police...
South Korean missionaries and pastors in China’s Shandong Province have been arrested and deported, and churches have been forcibly shut down. At two o’clock on the afternoon of May 6, 2018, a police station in Heze city dispatched eight officers to an apartment in a...
Additional information has emerged about the arrest of 71 believers in Henan’s Shangqiu city. Earlier in August, Bitter Winter reported about the arrest of 71 Christians from a house church in Henan. We have received information that one of them was tortured and ten...
In an ongoing assault on the Three-Self church, the authorities have shut down more churches in Henan’s Luoyang city. Bitter Winter has reported extensively about how the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs affected all religions in China....
Local authorities in Shandong raid a Christian gathering place and illegally detain a pastor. On July 29, seven police officers in Shandong’s Zibo city raided a sola fide gathering. Also known as justification by faith alone, sola fide is a Christian theological...
Despite China's denials about the existence of "transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang, Bitter Winter continues to receive accounts from people detained in such facilities. During China’s review at the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial...