Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor from Zhejiang Province, discloses details of being detained in a water dungeon. In June 2015, the local police of Qianxi arrested and detained Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor in a house church in Hangzhou, in the Guiyang airport. He was accused of...
A government-controlled Catholic Church sister in Zhejiang Province was arrested and held in detention for three months because her preaching did not correspond to the government’s requirements. On a Sunday morning of July 2016, after Ms. Zhou, a sister at the...
A government-controlled Protestant Three-Self church in Jiangxi Province was taken over by authorities and converted into a “poverty alleviation center.” With the growing persecution of religions in China, even the government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches...
A church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. The cross of a church in Zhejiang Province was torn down in 2014 and multiple people were injured while protesting it. On July 21, 2014, the cross of the...
A woman that belonged to a government-approved Protestant Three-Self Church in Fujian was blacklisted when her religious faith was marked as xie jiao (a heterodox organization) on the official identity database. The religious affiliation of a person, among other...
A black iron sheet was used to hide the cross on the main entrance to a government-controlled Catholic church that belongs to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association in Xikeng, Zhejiang. The Pingyang County government declared that the cross on the Xikeng Church...
The family of a believer in Almighty God has been harassed to coerce him into coming back to China after he had left because of his faith. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities persecute not only believers who live in the country, but they also target those who...
Authorities destroy a newly-built center for members of a government-controlled Three-Self church in Guangdong Province. A believer from mainland China wrote to Bitter Winter about the destruction of a five-story center for believers built by a government-controlled...
Authorities in Zhejiang Province prohibited holy names and religious terms on boats, ordering their owners to paint them over. In June 2018, the Fishery Administration Station in Songmen, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province was ordered to refer boats marked with religious...
The police arrested a member of the Church of Almighty God after they followed her for days, which led them to other Church members. On May 9, 2018, Huang Yue, a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested by the...