A government-sanctioned Protestant church in Fujian was persecuted by authorities for inviting preachers from another province to deliver sermons. On September 3, 2017, the Luohua Church, a Protestant church that belongs to the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, in...
Four years ago, authorities mobilized more than 1,000 people to destroy six Buddhist temples in Zhejiang Province. Recently, a witness of the events, a Buddhist herself, told Bitter Winter that four years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) one day destroyed six...
Bitter Winter received a video showing how authorities in Fujian Province’s assaulted local villagers who were defending their land. On March 28, 2016, authorities in Gutian county, Ningde city, Fujian Province forcibly seized 345 mu (approximately 57 acres) of...
A woman from Fujian was arrested and put through mental and physical trauma when authorities tortured her for information about her church. On July 19, Li Lin (pseudonym) was arrested from her home in Fujian province. She is a Christian and a believer of The Church of...
The official later streamed the demolition of the Buddhist temple live on WeChat. A local source recently told Bitter Winter that a 100-year-old Buddhist temple in Zhejiang was torn down in May 2013 because a party official felt it was “too conspicuous.” The official,...
Bitter Winter accessed a video that shows the destruction of an altar of a Catholic church in Fujian’s Fuzhou city. According to sources, on the morning of July 29, 2018, the local government in Fuzhou mobilized nearly 100 urban management and armed police officers...
A Jiangxi man could not avail medical treatment at the end of his life and died escaping persecution at the hands of CCP. In July 2014, the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign, known as, “Hundred Day Battle”, to arrest believers of The Church of...
Local booksellers in Zhejiang were taken into detention for selling books on religion. In May 2018, the authorities sent in more than ten police officers to arrest a bookseller in Zhejiang’s Taizhou city. Qiao Qin (pseudonym) was charged with the crime of running...
A government-controlled Catholic church in Fujian is on the verge of total collapse, and the authorities have so far denied the permission to rebuild it. Bitter Winter has learned of a church affiliated with the government-controlled Patriotic Catholic Church in...
After the local police forcibly removed their churches’ crosses, believers traveled to Beijing to talk to the central authorities but were sent back and later detained. In May 2015, local public security officers forcibly removed crosses from multiple churches in...