After university authorities discovered that a student was a member of The Church of Almighty God, he was forced to leave his studies and flee. Li Chao (pseudonym) studied at a university in Henan and was also a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese...
In China, even possessing a book from The Church of Almighty God is sufficient grounds for arrest or persecution; an elderly believer from Shandong knows this well after being apprehended twice. Chen Ye (pseudonym), a 65-years-old member of The Church of Almighty God,...
Police in Shandong Province shut down a family church, following the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs. In March 2014, Wang Xilan (pseudonym) built a church under the guise of a nursing home in Dezhou city of the Shandong Province. Believers...
Xin Shoudao from Henan Province has been left impoverished after paying hefty amounts in fines in the past one year to the Chinese government. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has resorted to various methods of torture and persecution of...
The Chinese police practice “soft” torture violence, aiming at destroying person’s spirit by using psychological pressure instead of physical force. Since the beginning of April, the Jiangsu provincial police launched a unified operation aimed at The Church of...
The Catholic Henan Regional Seminary is an essential part of the province’s religious and cultural heritage; authorities recently forcibly demolished the entrance to the seminary. Bitter Winter has recently learned that at 6 a.m. on April 27, 2018, claiming the...
A couple who are both members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested for their belief and tortured with drugs, among other methods. In 1986, China signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, also known as UNCAT. It was ratified two years later in 1988,...
Arrested during a church meeting, handcuffed believers were taken to a police station and later were fined, some detained and then sentenced. In May 2017, the police arrested 71 members of a house church in Shangqiu city, Henan Province while attending a gathering....
A Local Church preacher and five other Christians were arrested; the preacher has been kept in custody for over eight months. On November 19, Li Huazhang’s, 76, a preacher of a Local Church and five other Christians were arrested in Fuyang city, Anhui Province, on...
As soon as fugitives use their credit card or show their ID documents for hotel check-in or for purchasing a train ticket, they are identified and arrested. On July 14, Bitter Winter reported that on June 26 at least 500 members of The Church of Almighty God, a...